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Fire Safety and Engineering Project Report
Published 1989Australia has achieved an excellent fire safety record compared with other countries. The vast majority of fire deaths in buildings occur in dwellings. A very small percentage of fire deaths occur in non-residential ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Fire Safety and Engineering - International Symposium Papers
Published 1989A collection of papers presented by eight international experts on fire safety design in buildings, as part of the Warren Centre project on Fire Safety and Engineering (1989), with an introduction and outline of the Warren ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Fire Safety and Engineering: Technical Papers Book 1
Published 1989Australia has achieved an excellent fire safety record compared with other countries. The vast majority of fire deaths in buildings occur in dwellings. A very small percentage of fire deaths occur in non-residential ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Behaviour of Cold-Formed SHS Beam-Columns (No. R696)
Published 1994This research report describes a test programme conducted into the behaviour of cold-formed, compact square hollow section beam-columns. the tests were conducted in a purpose built test rig capable of applying load and ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Behaviour of Cold-Formed Slender SHS Beam-Columns (No. R707)
Published 1995This research report describes a test programme conducted into the behaviour of cold-formed square hollow section (SHS) beam-columns of slender cross-section and follows an earlier research report into the behaviour of ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Ductility of G550 Sheet Steels in Tension – Elongation Measurements and Perforated Tests (No. R735)
Published 1996Cold formed structural members are fabricated from sheet steels which must meet various material requirements prescribed in applicable national design standards. The Australian / New Zealand Design Standard allows for the ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Screwed Connection Tests of Thin G550 and G300 Sheet Steels (No. R761)
Published 1997Cold formed structural members are fabricated from sheet steels which must meet the material requirements prescribed in applicable national design standards. The Australian / New Zealand Design Standard for cold formed ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Bolted Connection Tests of Thin G550 and G300 Sheet Steels (No. R749)
Published 1997Cold formed structural members are fabricated from sheet steels which must meet the material requirements prescribed in applicable national design standards. The Australian / New Zealand Standard for cold-formed steel ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Tests for the Compact Web Slenderness of Cold-Formed Rectangular Hollow Sections (No. R744)
Published 1997This report describes a series of bending tests to examine the influence of web slenderness on the rotation capacity of cold-formed rectangular hollow sections (RHS) for use in plastic design. The results indicate that the ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Bending Tests of Bolted End Plate Connections in Cold Formed Rectangular Hollow Sections (No. R736)
Published 1997The research report describes an experimental investigation into the flexural behaviour of bolted end plate connections joining cold formed square and rectangular hollow sections. A total of twenty six (26) specimens, ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Bifurcation of Locally Buckled Channel Columns (No. R760)
Published 1997The report derives the governing equations for the fundamental and bifurcated states of members with singly symmetric cross-sections that locally buckle in the fundamental state. The members are subject to pure compression ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Design Model for Bolted Moment End Plate Connections Using Rectangular Hollow Sections (No. R745)
Published 1997The report presents a model for the determination of the ultimate moment capacity of bolted moment end plate connections utilising rectangular hollow sections and two rows of bolts. The model considers the combined effects ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Failure Modes of Bolted Sheet Steel Connections Loaded in Shear (No. R772)
Published 1998Cold formed structural members may be joined with bolted connections, which are designed with the aid of applicable national design standards. The ultimate load carrying capacity of a connection will be governed by one of ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Tests of Knee Joints in Cold-formed Rectangular Hollow Sections (No. R779)
Published 1998This report describes tests on various types of knee joints for portal frames constructed from cold-formed rectangular hollow sections (RHS). Welded stiffened and unstiffened knee joints, bolted knee joints with end plates, ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Tensile Fracture Behaviour of Thin G550 Sheet Steels (No. R773)
Published 1998Cold formed structural members are fabricated from sheet steels which must meet the material requirements prescribed in applicable national design standards. The Australian / New Zealand standard for cold-formed steel ...Open AccessReport, Research -
New Bolted Connection Design Formulae for G550 and G300 Sheet Steels Less Than 1.0 mm Thick (No. R769)
Published 1998Cold formed structural members are fabricated from sheet steels which must meet the material requirements prescribed in applicable national design standards. The Australian / New Zealand standard for cold-formed steel ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Finite Element Analysis of Plastic Bending of Cold-Formed Rectangular Hollow Section Beams (No. R792)
Published 1999-01-01This report describes the finite element analysis of rectangular hollow section (RHS) beams, to simulate a series of bending tests. The finite element program ABAQUS was used for the analysis. The main aims of the analysis ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Tests of Cold-Formed Rectangular Hollow Section Portal Frames (No. R783)
Published 1999-01-01This report describes tests on three large scale portal frames manufactured from cold-formed RHS in both Grade C350 and Grade C450 steel. The loading simulated gravity and wind loads. The connections, lateral restraint ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Strength of Fillet Welded Connections in G450 Sheet Steels (No. R802)
Published 2000-01-01This paper investigates the reliability of the existing design equations specified in AS/NZS 4600:1996 for fillet welded connections in cold-reduced high-strength G450 sheet steels. The existing design equations are adapted ...Open AccessReport, Research -
Effects of Wind-Induced Building Motion on Cognitive Performance (No. R804)
Published 2000-01-01Field and laboratory experiments were conducted to investigate the effects of wind-induced building motion on cognitive performance. This was done with particular reference to determining whether there was a decrement in ...Open AccessReport, Research