Structural fire resistance

News and Updates

Draft California Fire Code Includes NIST Tool to Evaluate Wildfire Hazard

September 13, 2021

Severe wildfire disasters are often the product of numerous factors — vegetation, drought, a lack of firefighting resources, and many others — coalescing

New Timeline of Deadliest California Wildfire Could Guide Lifesaving Research and Action

February 8, 2021

On a brisk November morning in 2018, a fire sparked in a remote stretch of canyon in Butte County, California, a region nestled against the western slopes of

A fire test of an office building floor replica occurring in a fireproof compartment.

How Fire Causes Office-Building Floors to Collapse

March 24, 2020

Engineers and technicians at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) spent months meticulously recreating the long concrete floors supported

Publications

Behavior of Composite Floor Assemblies Subject to Fire: Influence of Slab Reinforcement

September 1, 2021

Author(s)

Lisa Choe, Selvarajah Ramesh, Chao Zhang, Charles Clifton

A series of fire experiments are being conducted on the 2-story steel framed building with composite floors in the National Fire Research Laboratory. This paper

Improving the State-of-the-Art in Flow Measurements for Large-Scale Oxygen Consumption Calorimetry

May 6, 2021

Author(s)

Rodney A. Bryant, Matthew Bundy

The accuracy of the exhaust flow measurement contributes significantly to the uncertainty of calorimetry measurements for large fire testing. Less than ideal

Distributed fiber optic measurements of strain and temperature in long-span composite floor beams with simple shear connections subject to compartment fires

May 1, 2021

Author(s)

Yanping Zhu, Matthew Klegseth, Yi Bao, Matthew Hoehler, Lisa Y. Choe, Genda Chen

This study explores an instrumentation strategy using distributed fiber optic sensors to measure strain and temperature through the concrete volume in large

Ignitibility of Structural Wood Products Exposed to Embers During Wildland Fires: A Review of Literature

April 27, 2021

Author(s)

Shonali Nazare, Isaac T. Leventon, Rick Davis

Ignitability of structural components due to ember accumulation is a common cause of structural fires in wildland urban interface (WUI) communities. To fire