The date for submission of full paper and registration for approved abstracts is strictly before 31 Mar 08. Please note that each accepted papers must be accompanied by a fully paid registration to be published in the Proceedings.

The SiF conference provides a forum for experts in the fire resistance research field from around the world to meet biennially and to exchange views of professional interest.

The conference, first created in 2000, was held in Copenhagen, Denmark. It was subsequently rotated to Christchurch, New Zealand in 2002, Ottawa, Canada in 2004 and Aveiro, Portugal in 2006. Singapore is the first Asian country to host this event.

Similar to the previous conferences, SiF'08 will provide sufficient time for discussion after each presentation. There will be only one working session at any point in time; no parallel tracks will be arranged.

Kang Hai TAN and Teng Hooi TAN

For more information, please contact the Secretariat at:
5^TH International Conference Structures in Fire (SiF'08)
c/o CMA International Consultants Pte Ltd
1 Liang Seah Street
#02-12 Liang Seah Place
Singapore 189022

Tel: +65-6336 2328
Fax: +65-6336 2583
Email: SIF-08@ntu.edu.sg
Website: www.ntu.edu.sg/cee/SIF-08/

Full Conference: S$560 (excluding GST)
-Includes refreshments, lunches, a Conference kit and Conference  Dinner

Student Rate: S$420 (excluding GST)
-Includes refreshments, lunches, and a Conference kit

Dinner for Accompanying Person: S$80 (excluding GST)

For registration, please complete the enclosed registration form and forward it to the Secretariat via fax: (65)6336 2583 or email: sif@cma.sg or refer to http://cma.sg/sif-registration/.

All published materials, posters and spoken presentations will be in English.

There will be a total of 94 accepted papers presented at the SiF conference. These papers have been carefully reviewed and approved by an appointed Scientific Committee consisting of professionals from various countries. Up to 52 universities from more than 15 countries will be presenting their papers at this meaningful conference.

The list of accepted presentation is as follows:

• Analysis Approach of Cellular Composite Floor Beams at Ambient and Elevated Temperatures
  Nadjai, N. Goodfellow, F. Ali, O. Vassart, Univ of Ulster, UK
  
  
• Fundamentals of structural behaviour during a horizontally travelling fire
  Adam Ervine, Univ of Edinburgh
  
  
• Effect of Joint Typologies on the 3D Behaviour of a Steel Frame unde a Natural Fire
  Aldina Santiago, Luis Simoes da Silva, Paulo Vila Real, Portugal
  
  
• Effect of Edge support and Reinforced ratios on Slab panel failure in fire
  Anthony K.Abu, Ian W.Burgees, Roger J.Plank, Univ of Sheffield, UK
  
  
• Testing and Modelling of Bonded and Unbonded Post-tensioned Concrete Slabs in Fire
  Ehab Ellobody and Colin Bailey, Univ of Manchestor, UK

• Analysis Approach of Cellular Composite Floor Beams at Ambient and Elevated Temperatures
  Ali Nadjai, N. Goodfellow, F. Ali, University of Ulster
  
  
• Fire performance of gypsum plasterboards
  Andrea Frangi, Markus Knobloch, Mario Fontana Institute of Structural Engineering, ETH Zurich
  
  
• A very simple method for assessing tall building safety in major fires
  Asif Usmani, Univ of Edinburgh
  
  
• Full scale test of a steel and concrete composite floor exposed to ISO fire
  B. ZHAO, M. ROOSEFID, O. VASSART, L.G. CAJOT, CTICM
  
  
• MODELING THE PEFORMACE OF NON-LOADBEARING GYPSUM-PROTECTED STEEL STUD WALLS IN FURNACE AND ROOM FIRE TESTS
  Barry Badders et al, SwRI USA
  
  
• Experimental Research on the Fire Performance of Axially Restrained RC Columns with L-shaped cross-section
  Bo Wu, Yi-Hai Li, S. China Univ, China
  
  
• Analysis of steel beams with non-uniform longitudinal temperature distribution under fire conditions
  Cai Jianguo, FENG Jian, HUANG Lifeng, Southeast University, Nanjing
  
  
• Computational Modelling of Concrete Exposed to Fire: The Effects of Coupled Hygro-Thermal-Mechanical Behaviour on the Development of Spalling in Concrete Structures
  Colin Davie, Newcastle Univ
  
  
• Comparative Study of Analytical Furmaulae for the Fire Resistance of Steel Beam-Columns
  D. Talamona, S.Castagne, N.Lopes, P.Vila Real, J.M Franssen, Univ of Newcastle
  
  
• Fire after Earthquake
  D.Pintea, R.Zaharia, D.Dubina, Univ. of Timisoara, Romania

• The Reliability of Structures in Fire
  David Lange, Asif Usmani & Jose Torero, BRE Fire Safety, UK
  
  
• Analysis of the fire performance of R.C. frames
  Dwaikat M, Michigan State Univ.
  
  
• Experimental and numerical investigation of behaviour of tropical wood in fire: from wooden beams to timber structural elements.
  E. Hugi et al, EMPA Switzerland
  
  
• Mechanical characterization of fibre reinforced polymers for numerical fire endurance modelling
  E.U. Chowdhury, Queen's Univ, Canada
  
  
• Testing and Modelling of Bonded and Unbonded Post-tensioned Concrete Slabs in Fire
  Ehab Ellobody and Colin Bailey, Univ of Manchestor, UK
  
  
• Concrete in Fire : Influence of the Mix proportion Parameters on Hot Strength and Spalling
  Fabienne Robert, Cedric Collinnon, Yahia MSAAD, Research Center Concrete, France
  
  
• Development of a Transient Heat Transfer Model on External Steel Elements Based on Numerical Modelling and Experimental Studies
  Fernando Morente, Jesus De La Quintana, Fundacion Labein
  
  
• The practical application of structural fire engineering on a retail development in the UK
  Florian Block, Buro Happold
  
  
• Slender Steel Columns Exposed to Localised Fire
  Grant Wang, David Barber, ArupFire
  
  
• A new method to analyze the membrane action of composite floor slabs in fire condition
  Guo Qiang Li, Na-si Zhang, Tongji University
  
  
• Thermal and Mechanical Failure of Wood-Framed Floor Assemblies
  H. Takeda, LGS Canada
  
  

• Experimental Investigation of the Behaviour of Flush Endplate Connections in Fire
  Hongxia Yu, I.W. Burgess ,J.B. Davison, R.J. Plank, The University of Sheffield
  
  
• Prediction of intumescent coating performance under cone calorimeter - A mathematical approach for performance based design under different fire conditions
  J F Yuan, Univ of Manchester
  
  
• Effect of Aspect Ratio on Fire Resistance on Hollowcore Concrete Floors
  Jeremy Chang, Peter J.Moss, Rajesh P.Dhakal;, Andrew H. Buchanan, Univ of Canterbury, New Zealand
  
  
• Cyclic Behaviors of Concrete-Filled Steel Tubular Columns With Pre-Load after Exposure to High Temperatures
  Jingsi Huo, Xiang Zeng, Yan Xiao
  
  
• Cyclic Behaviour of Concrete-filled Steel Tubular Columns with Pre-load after exposure to high temperatures
  Jing-Si Huo, Xiang Zeng, Yan Xiao, Hunan Univ, China/ Univ of SC USA
  
  
• Thermal restraint effects on the Fire resistance of steel columns
  João Paulo Rodrigues, António M. Correia, Alexandre Landesmann, Miguel Gonçalves, Universidade de Coimbra
  
  
• Ultimate Behaviour of Composite Floor Slabs at Ambient and Elevated Temperature
  K. Cashell, A. Elghazouli, B. Izzuddin, Imperial College, London
  
  
• Effect of Elevated Temperatures on Flexural behaviour of Hybrid Fiber Reinforced high strength concrete
  Kazuo Watanabe & Takishi Horiguchi, Hokkaido Univ, Japan
  
  
• Fire Induced Thermal and Structural Response of the World Trade Center Towers.
  Kuldeep Prasad, NIST
  
  

• Fire Performance of Reinforced Concrete Beams to Steel Reinforced Concrete Columns Joints
  Lin-Hai Han, Yong Qiang, Zhong Tao, Tsinghua University, China
  
  
• Fire Resistance of Steel Beam-columns subjected to axial compression and biaxial bending with non-uniform bending moment distribution
  Markus Knobloch, Mario Fontana, Andrea Frangi, ETH Zurich, Institute of Structural Engineering
  
  
• Dependable Performance of Steel Structures in Fire-The Britomart East Office Building
  Martin Feeney, Charles Clifton, Nandor Magno, Holmes Fire & Safety
  
  
• Research on the Behaviour of Hollow Concrete Filled Steel Tube Columns in Fire
  Min Yu & Xiaoxiong Zha, Shenzen Grad School, China
  
  
• Fall-off of gypsum plasterboard in fire
  Mohamed Sultan, NRCC
  
  
• Testing Needs for the Advancement of Structural Fire Engineering
  Nestor Iwankiw, Craig Beyler & Jess Beitel, Hughes Assoc, USA
  
  
• Duplex Stainless Steel Columns and Beam-Columns in Case of Fire
  Nuno Lopes, Paulo Vial Real, Luis Simoes da Silva, J.M Franssen, Portugal
  
  
• Analytical web post buckling model for steel and composite cellular beams under fire conditions
  O. Vassart, Arcelor Mittal
  
  
• On the Role of 2nd - Order Effects in RC Columns exposed to Fire
  Patrick Bamonte & Pietro Gambarova, Dept of Struc Engg Milano, Italy
  
  

• Assessment of Eurocode 5 charring rate calculation methods
  Paulo Cachim, J-M Franssen, Univ of Aveiro, Univ of Liege
  
  
• On the design of timber bolted connections subjected to fire
  Peter Moss et al, Univ of Canterbury
  
  
• Fire-Resistant Steel at Elevated Temperatures
  Peter Schaumann, Oliver Bahr, University of Hannover
  
  
• The influence of pressure in the pore system on fire spalling of Concrete
  Robert Jansson & Lars Bostrom, SP Tech Research Inst, Sweden
  
  
• Measurement of Thermal Properties of Gypsum Board at Elevated Temperatures
  Sameul Manzello, Tensei M, Dale Bentz, Building and Fire Research Laboratory (BFRL)*
  
  
• Fundamental Behaviour and Overall Stability of Columns subjected to Standard Fire Loading: Experimental Investigations and Numerical Simulation
  Sangdo Hong, Amit Varma, Anil Agarwal, Purdue Univ, USA
  
  
• Experimental Study of the Steel-Concrete Composite Columns under High Temperatures
  Seong-Deok Kang, Myoung-Ho Oh, Myeong-Han Kim & Sang-Dae Kim, Korea Univ
  
  
• Behavior of Steel Angle Connections subjected to various Fire Scenarios
  Serdar Selamet, Maria Garlock, Princeton University
  
  
• A Study on the Fire Resistance of High-Strength Concrete filled square steel tube Columns under constant axial loads
  Su-Hee Park, Kyung-Soo Chung, Sung-Mo Choi, Univ. of Seoul, Korea
  
  
• The Dalmarnock Fire Tests: Performance of Real Concrete Structure in Fire
  Susan Deeny, Tim Stratford, Martin Gillie, BRE Fire Safety, UK

• Consideration of Non Linear Creep Strain of Silicious Concrete on Calculation of Mechanical Strain under Temperatures as a function of Load History
  Ulrich Schneider, Martin Schneider, J.M Franssen, Univ. of Tech Vienna
  
  
• Experimental behaviour of steel columns with partial damage of fire retardant coating in fire
  Wei-Yong Wang, Guo Qiang Li, Tongji University
  
  
• Temperature Developments in Fire in Partially Protected Steel-Concrete Composite Joints using Intumescent Coating
  Xianghe Dai, Y C Wang, Colin Bailey, The University of Manchester
  
  
• Modelling of Flexible End Plate Connections in Fire using Cohesive Elements
  Ying Hu, Univ of Sheffield
  
  
• The impact of various material models on structural fire behavior prediction
  Yngve Anderberg, Flight & Safety Design International AB
  
  
• The development of a component mechanical model for composite top-and-seat and web angle joint at elevated temperature. Part I: Experimental research
  Yuan Z, Tan K.H., Ting S.K., University of Nanyang
  
  
• Thermal and Structural Response of a Two-story, Two-bay Composite Steel Frame under Fire Loading
  Yuli Dong, Kuldeep Prasad, Harbin Institute of Technology District
  
  
• Column Behaviour during Localised Fire Test
  Z. Sokol, F. Wald, P. Kallerová, N. Bonnet, Czech Technical University in Prague
  
  
• Pre and Post-buckling Behaviour of I beams Loaded in Shear at Elevated Temperature
  Zhen-Hai QIAN, Tan K.H., University of Nanyang