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Testing full-scale structures is a means to understanding how completed structures perform. Unfortunately, few guidelines exist to aid engineers engaged in such evaluation. Many test procedures are equally applicable to complete structures regardless of the construction material. However, wood possesses many unique properties that must be considered. Tests were conducted on a variety of wood structures. Alternate test methods were developed based upon the locations where tests were performed, which included laboratory tests, field tests with close support, and field tests in remote areas with a minimum of support facilities. These experiences may be useful to engineers confronting similar test situations.
Two test programs performed by the National Bureau of Standards (NBS) in 1970 and 1971 on wood-framed houses are discussed as cases in point of the use of full-scale testing for establishing and validating structural performance requirements.
Global economic losses due to severe weather events have grown dramatically over the past two decades. A large proportion of these losses are due to severe wind storms such as tropical cyclones and tornadoes, which can cause destruction to buildings, houses, and other infrastructure over large areas. To address the growing losses, many new large-scale and full-scale laboratories have been developed. These tools are used to examine the issues that could not be solved with the traditional tools of wind engineering including model-scale boundary layer wind tunnels, simplified standardized product tests, and other methods of analysis. This book presents state-of-the-art results from the development of the many novel approaches being used to mitigate natural disasters around the world.
This book holds the proceedings of the Conference on Applications of Structural Fire Engineering (ASFE 2017), held on September 7-8, 2017, in Manchester, UK. The ASFE’17 conference will be the next in a series (2009, 2011, 2013, 2015) of successful conferences that aim to bring together experts and specialists in design against fire from all over the world to share ideas and to acquire knowledge in the field of structural fire engineering. Practice in structural engineering increasingly accepts the benefits of performancebased approaches to the design of structures for fire resistance. This conference will focus on the application of design methods, both manual and computational, for structures to resist fire. Particularly relevant themes will be fire modelling, simulation of the heat transfer between fire and structures, and modelling of structural behaviour at elevated temperatures using numerical methods or software implementations of design codes.