The Cardington Fire Tests were a series of large-scale fire tests conducted in real structures (wood, steel-concrete composite ,and concrete) at the BRE Cardington facility near

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. during the mid 1990s. After the tests, extensive computational and analytical studies of the behaviour of steel-framed composite structures in fire conditions were carried out by, among others, The University of Edinburgh, Sheffield University, and Imperial College London. The results were presented in the form of a main report, which identified the main findings, together with numerous supplementary reports exploring various phenomena in detail.Publications on The Cardington Fire Tests, Collection home page
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