HYBRID FIRE TESTING OF A SINGLE DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM LINEAR SYSTEM

Published

June 6, 2018

Author(s)

Ana Sauca, Chao Zhang, Artur A. Chernovsky, Mina S. Seif

Abstract

As the structural engineering industry transitions towards performance based design methods, a better understanding of the performance of structures as full systems, especially under extreme loading conditions like fire, becomes a must. Full scale testing will provide such information, however, at an unrealistic cost. Hybrid Fire Testing (HFT) is inspired from sub-structuring method, which provides the insight through testing individual members exposed to elevated temperatures, while simultaneously accounting for the effect of the surrounding structure, which is numerically modelled aside. The tested member and the numerically represented surrounding must communicate during the entire test. This communication framework is a key component for a successful HFT. However, there is lack of availability of generic frameworks that enable the use of different software and hardware configurations. This paper presents the development of such generic communication framework. First, a validation of the communication framework was done in a virtual environment, where both the tested member and the surrounding are numerically modelled separately. Next, a hybrid fire test was performed on a single degree- of-freedom linear system.

Conference Dates

June 6-8, 2018

Conference Location

Belfast

Conference Title

SiF18 – The 10th International Conference on Structures in Fire

Pub Type

Conferences

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Keywords

Hybrid fire testing, fire tests, substructures, communication framework

Citation

Sauca, A. , Zhang, C. , Chernovsky, A. and Seif, M. (2018), HYBRID FIRE TESTING OF A SINGLE DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM LINEAR SYSTEM, SiF18 – The 10th International Conference on Structures in Fire, Belfast, -1, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=925562 (Accessed April 25, 2024)