Thesis (M.E.F.E.)--University of Canterbury, 2007. / Typescript (photocopy). "November 2007." Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-245). Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.S.)--Worcester Polytechnic Institute. / Keywords: Clothing; manikin. Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-83).

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio State University. / Bibliography: leaf 67. Available online via OhioLINK's ETD Center

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Thesis (M.S.) -- Worcester Polytechnic Institute. / Keywords: Office buildings; Steel beams; Lumped parameter method; Cardington Tests; Design fire curves . Includes bibliographical references (leaves 144-146).

Lightweight wood construction is one of the most common forms of residential construction in the United States. Unprotected lightweight wood structural members are extremely sensitive to elevated temperatures often experienced in fire conditions. Residential fires are a commonly occurring incident across the globe and consequently make up a large percentage of residential property loss and damage. In the United States, building code provisions limit lightweight construction to particular building types. These building codes prescribe protected lightweight wood assemblies in building types for which they are allowed. Although many components of lightweight wood buildings are required to be protected in some form, there are still many parts of the building that are not necessarily required to be protected, especially in private residential structures. A fire may start in an area of a building that is protected, but may propagate into areas that are not. This leaves portions of the unprotected structure vulnerable to rapid fire damage. Lightweight wood members can quickly lose load resistance due to a loss of cross-section as a result of charring. Analytical models currently exist and are generally accepted for heavy timber elements, but the applications of these models do not extend to lightweight wood members. As a result, this thesis investigated the application of an analytical model to lightweight wood elements. In developing this model, the finite element method and finite difference models were used to investigate the phenomenon of wood char in fire conditions. Finite difference models were explored as an alternative to finite element models because finite difference formulations did not require specialty programs. Following the development of analytical char models, mechanics-based analyses were conducted to evaluate the performance of lightweight beams and columns exposed to fire conditions.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Canterbury, 2009. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references. Also available via the World Wide Web.

Thesis (M.S.)--Worcester Polytechnic Institute. / Keywords: structural engineering; fire safety; framework approach; performance-based design; information management; finite element; lumped-parameter; laboratory tests; steel; beam; restrained; plastic analysis. Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-182).

Thesis (M.S.) -- Worcester Polytechnic Institute. / Keywords: measurement uncertainty; composite properties. Includes bibliographical references.

Traditional probability and statistics methodologies recommended by ISO and NIST were applied to standardize measurement uncertainty analysis on calorimetry bench scale apparatuses. The analysis was conducted for each component instrument (direct measurement) and each related physics quantity measured indirectly. There were many sources contributing to the ultimate uncertainty, however, initially, we dealt with the intrinsic uncertainty of each measuring instrument and the uncertainty from calibration. All other sources of uncertainty, i.e., drift, data acquisition, data reduction (round off, truncation, and curve smoothing) and personal operation were assumed to be negligible. Results were expressed as an interval having 95% confidence that the ¡°true¡± value would fall within. A Monte Carlo Simulation technique with sampling size of 10000 was conducted to model the experiments. It showed that at least 95% of the modeled experiment results were inside the estimate interval. The consistency validated our analysis method. An important characteristic of composite material systems is the ability to ¡°custom design¡± the system to meet performance criteria such as cost, durability, strength and / or reaction to fire. To determine whether a new system is an improvement over previous ones and can meet required performance criteria, sufficiently accurate and precise instruments are needed to measure the system¡¯s material properties in bench scale testing. Commonly used bench scale apparatuses are the cone calorimeter (Cone) and the FMGR fire propagation apparatus (FPA). For this thesis, thermally ¡°thin¡± and ¡°thick¡± specimens of a natural composite, red oak, were tested in the Cone in an air environment and in the FPA in a nitrogen environment. Cone test data of two FRP composite systems from the previous work of Alston are also considered. The material reaction to fire properties were estimated considering both ignition and pyrolysis measurements made via the Cone and FPA. Investigation of the ultimate uncertainty of these material fire properties based on the intrinsic uncertainty of the component instruments (e.g. load cell) as well as the uncertainty introduced via use of a current ignition and pyrolysis model are considered.