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Fire Performance Materials and Structure

A special issue of Fire (ISSN 2571-6255). This special issue belongs to the section "Fire Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Buildings and Urban Spaces".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 July 2024 | Viewed by 3342

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Dr. Gang Zhang

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School of Highway, Chang’an University, Xi'an 1109, China
Interests: bridge fire; bridge engineering; fire resistance; fire-resistant design
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Fire poses a severe threat to the safety and durability of material and structures. Further, a severe explosive fire can damage materials and structures, causing failure in local components or even the collapse of overall structures, along with related buildings. This can therefore result in casualties, serious economic and property losses, and in some cases even the loss of life.

To ensure the safety of structures over their full lifecycle, reliable and preferable design strategies, construction measures, comprehensive protection techniques and early pre-warning and monitoring methods of fire loadings will be required. Therefore, new fire peformance materials and structures must be developed, together with intelligent safety methods and innovative protective techniques, to prevent these sudden occurrence of fire loadings.

This Special Issue invites the submission of research into extreme fire loading effects, fire performance material, new members, intelligent pre-warning methods and protective measures used in structures.

Prof. Dr. Gang Zhang
Guest Editor

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Fire is an international peer-reviewed open access monthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

Keywords

  • fire performance
  • fire resistance
  • fire-resistant design
  • fire hazard
  • fire safety

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Fire Effect and Performance of Bridge Pylon Columns under Construction
by Yang Li, Zuocai Wang, Changjian Wang, Yin Zhang, Hongsheng Ma and Lili Liu
Fire 2023, 6(10), 387; https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6100387 - 08 Oct 2023
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The fire effect and performance of bridge pylons under construction were investigated via an analysis conducted on two types of pylons with different wall thicknesses. Three fire scenarios, namely internal fire, external ring fire, and external side fire, were established for a 40 [...] Read more.
The fire effect and performance of bridge pylons under construction were investigated via an analysis conducted on two types of pylons with different wall thicknesses. Three fire scenarios, namely internal fire, external ring fire, and external side fire, were established for a 40 m high section of the bridge pylon under construction. The distribution of fire smoke and temperature was obtained using fire dynamics simulation software for different fire scenarios. In addition, a finite element simulation was performed using the thermal–mechanical coupling method to obtain the temperature, stress, and deformation of the columns. The simulation results demonstrate that the average temperature of the internal fire is higher. The chimney effect extends the height range of temperature influence. In the vertical direction, the temperature decrease curve for the internal fire follows a single negative exponential function, while the external fire adheres to a double negative exponential function. The thickness of the temperature influence in the bridge pylon is extended by heating to approximately 200 mm. The stress value considering the thermal expansion coefficient is nearly 27.5 times that without the expansion coefficient, while the deformation value increases by 1 to 8 times. In conclusion, the calculations of the coupled expansion coefficient are helpful in improving the fire safety of bridge pylons. Full article
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Experimental Analysis of Lightweight Fire-Rated Board on Fire Resistance, Mechanical, and Acoustic Properties
by Ming Chian Yew, Ming Kun Yew and Richard Kwok Kit Yuen
Fire 2023, 6(6), 221; https://doi.org/10.3390/fire6060221 - 31 May 2023
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Using lightweight fire-rated board (LFRB) presents cost-effective opportunities for various passive fire protection measures. The aim of the project is to develop an LFRB with enhanced fire resistance, acoustic properties, and mechanical properties. These properties were determined using a Bunsen burner, furnace, energy-dispersive [...] Read more.
Using lightweight fire-rated board (LFRB) presents cost-effective opportunities for various passive fire protection measures. The aim of the project is to develop an LFRB with enhanced fire resistance, acoustic properties, and mechanical properties. These properties were determined using a Bunsen burner, furnace, energy-dispersive X-ray, impedance tube instrument, and Instron universal testing machine. To fabricate the LFRBs, vermiculite and perlite were blended with flame-retardant binders, and four types of LFRBs were produced. A fire test was conducted to compare the fire-resistance performance of the LFRBs with a commercially available flame-retardant board. The B2 prototype showed exceptional fire-resistant properties, with a temperature reduction of up to 73.0 °C, as compared to the commercially available fire-rated magnesium board. Incorporating nano chicken eggshell into the specially formulated flame-retardant binder preserved the LFRBs’ structural integrity, enabling them to withstand fire for up to 120 min with an equilibrium temperature of 92.6 °C. This approach also provided an absorption coefficient of α = 2.0, a high flexural strength of 3.54 MPa, and effective flame-retardancy properties with a low oxygen/carbon ratio of 2.60. These results make the LFRBs valuable for passive fire protection applications in the construction and building materials industry. Full article
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