Fire Resistance Evaluation of Reinforced Concrete Structures

Alternative to fire tests in the near future may become modeling of structures under fire by means of the computer-aided design. With an objective source of data, the quantity of information from the created model is much higher than the results of standard fire tests. Based on the range of research a technique for modeling the precast concrete slabs to assess their fire rates with CAD system ANSYS has been developed. The adequacy of the simulation environment is confirmed by comparison with experimental data.