Composite Floor-to-SpeedCore Wall Systems: Performance-Based Fire Resistance and Design

Composite Floor-to-SpeedCore Wall Systems: Performance-Based Fire Resistance and Design

This project will develop performance-based fire-resistant design provisions for the complete floor system consisting of composite floors, SpeedCore walls, and wall-to-floor connections. The design provisions will consider both standard and design fire scenarios. Design methods will account for the complexities of behavior including thermal deformations (expansion / contraction, bowing), restraints including axial and flexural deformations and forces induced in the connections, and connection limit states including fracture failure. Different types of shear connections between the wall and floor system will be considered.

• Grant Details

  Project

  Composite Floor-to-SpeedCore Wall Systems: Performance-Based Fire Resistance and Design

  Grantee

  Purdue University

  Category

  Steel

  Subcategory

  SpeedCore

  Grant #

  03-20

  Award Amount

  $216,000

  Grant Period

  December 2020 - January 2023

  Grant Status

  Active

  Principal Investigators

  Amit Varma, Professor, Purdue University; ahvarma@purdue.edu

  Industry Champions

  Lisa Choe, Ph.D., National Institute of Standards and Technology; Erica Fischer, Ph.D., Oregon State University; Gary Higbee, AIA, Steel Institute of New York; Devin Huber, P.E., Ph.D., American Institute of Steel Construction; Lawrence F. Kruth, P.E., American Institute of Steel Construction; Therese P. McAllister, Ph.D., P.E., National Institute of Standards and Technology; Eric Montplaisir, P.E., SLS; Joshua M. Mouras, P.E., S.E., Magnusson Klemencic and Associates; Kai Ki Mow, P.E., S.E., Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections

  CPF Allies

  American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC), MKA Foundation, Steel Institute of New York (SINY)

• Resources / Downloads

  In Development