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Influence of Fire on the Lateral Resistance of Cold-Formed Steel Shear Walls
Research Overview
A furnished kitchen compartment fire was studied to provide a comparison with the design fire scenarios. The compartment (3.6 m long by 2.8 m wide by 2.8 m high) was constructed using cold-formed steel framing lined with two layers of 16 mm thick gypsum board and had an opening 1.6 m wide by 2.0 m high. The fire was started by ignition of a pan of oil left unattended on a stove.
Bryant, R. and Bundy, M. The NIST 20 MW Calorimetry Measurement System for Large-Fire Research, Technical Note (NIST TN) 2077, 2019
https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.2077
NIST Fire Calorimetry Database (FCD)
https://doi.org/10.18434/mds2-2314