Session 1:

(Chairman: Andy Buchanan)

• Assessment of Eurocode 5 charring rate calculation methods
  PAULO B. CACHIM and JEAN-MARC FRANSSEN
  
  
• Effect of fire scenario, restraint conditions, and spalling on the behavior of RC beams
  DWAIKAT M.B. and KODUR V.K.R
  
  
• Behaviour and mechanical modelling of composite top-and-seat and web angle joints at ambient and elevated temperatures
  YUAN ZHEN, TAN KANG HAI and TING SENG KIONG
  
  

Session 2: STEEL, STAINLESS STEEL AND ALUMINIUM STRUCTURES

(Chairman: Mario Fontana)

• Analytical model for the web post buckling in cellular beams under fire
  O. VASSART , A. BOUCHAÏR, J.-P. MUZEAU and A. NADJAI
  
  
• Development of a transient heat transfer model on external steel elements based on numerical modelling and experimental studies
  JESÚS DE LA QUINTANA and FERNANDO MORENTE
  
  
• Column behaviour during localised fire test
  ZDENEK SOKOL, FRANTIŠEK WALD, PETRA KALLEROVÁ and NICOLAS BONNET
  
  
• Fire-resistant steel at elevated temperatures
  JUERGEN KRAMPEN, PETER SCHAUMANN and OLIVER BAHR
  
  
• Slender steel columns exposed to localised fire
  GRANT WANG and DAVID BARBER

Session 3: STEEL, STAINLESS STEEL AND ALUMINIUM STRUCTURES

(Chairman: Ian Burgess)

• Comparative study of analytical formulae for the fire resistance of steel beam-columns
  DIDIER TALAMONA, SYLVIE CASTAGNE, NUNO LOPES, PAULO VILA REAL and JEAN-MARC FRANSSEN
  
  
• Fire resistance of steel beam-columns subjected to axial compression and biaxial bending with non-uniform bending moment distribution
  MARKUS KNOBLOCH , MARIO FONTANA and ANDREA FRANGI
  
  
• Deflection Behaviour of Plate Girders Loaded in Shear at Elevated Temperature
  ZHEN-HAI QIAN and KANG-HAI TAN
  
  
• Duplex stainless steel columns and beam-columns in case of fire
  NUNO LOPES, PAULO VILA REAL, LUIS SIMÕES DA SILVA and JEAN-MARC FRANSSEN

Session 4: CONNECTIONS IN STEEL AND COMPOSITE STRUCTURES

(Chairman: Guo-qiang Li)

• Modelling of flexible end plate connections in fire using cohesive elements
  YING HU, IAN BURGESS, BUICK DAVISON and ROGER PLANK
  
  
• Behavior of steel plate connections subject to various fire scenarios
  SERDAR SELAMET and MARIA E. M. GARLOCK
  
  
• Experimental investigation of the behaviour of flush endplate connections in fire
  HONGXIA YU, I.W. BURGESS, J.B. DAVISON and R.J. PLANK
  
  
• Temperature developments in fire in partially protected steel-concrete composite joints using intumescent coating
  XIANGHE DAI, Y C WANG and C G BAILEY
  
  
• Effect of joint typologies on the 3D behaviour of a steel frame under a natural fire
  ALDINA SANTIAGO, LUÍS SIMÕES DA SILVA and PAULO VILA REAL
  
  
• Fire performance of gypsum plasterboards
  ANDREA FRANGI, VANESSA SCHLEIFER, MARIO FONTANA and ERIC HUGI
  
  
• On the design of timber bolted connections subjected to fire
  PETER MOSS, ANDREW BUCHANAN, MASSIMO FRAGIACOMO and CARLA AUSTRUY

Session 5: TIMBER STRUCTURES

(Chairman: Paulo Vila Real)

• Fall-off of gypsum plasterboard in fire
  MOHAMED A. SULTAN
  
  
• Measurement of thermal properties of gypsum board at elevated temperatures
  SAMUEL L. MANZELLO, SUEL-HYUN PARK, TENSEI MIZUKAMI and DALE P. BENTZ
  
  
• Experimental and numerical investigation of behaviour of tropical wood in fire: from wooden beams to timber structural elements.
  ERICH HUGI, REGINA WEBER and SERGEY SHEPEL
  
  
• Computational modelling of concrete exposed to fire: the effects of coupled hygro-thermal-mechanical behaviour on the development of spalling in concrete structures
  COLIN T. DAVIE, HONGLIN ZHANG, CHRIS J. PEARCE and NENAD BICANICN
  
  
• Effect of edge support and reinforced ratios on slab panel failure in fire
  ANTHONY K. ABU , IAN W. BURGESS and ROGER J. PLANK

Session 6: CONCRETE STRUCTURES

(Chairman: Maria Garlock)

• Testing and modelling of bonded and unbonded post-tensioned concrete slabs in fire
  EHAB ELLOBODY and COLIN G. BAILEY
  
  
• Effect of aspect ratio on fire resistance on hollowcore concrete floors
  JEREMY CHANG, PETER J. MOSS, RAJESH P. DHAKAL and ANDREW H. BUCHANAN
  
  
• The influence of pressure in the pore system on fire spalling of concrete
  ROBERT JANSSON and LARS BOSTRÖM
  
  
• Effect of elevated temperatures on flexural behaviour of hybrid fiber reinforced high strength concrete
  KAZUO WATANABE and TAKASHI HORIGUCHI
  
  
• On the role of 2nd - Order effects in HSC columns exposed to fire
  PATRICK BAMONTE

Session 7: CONCRETE STRUCTURES

(Chairman: Asif Usmani)

• Experimental research on the fire performance of axially restrained RC Columns with L-shaped cross-section
  BO WU and YI-HAI LI
  
  
• 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 and JEAN-MARC FRANSSEN
  
  
• Ultimate behaviour of composite floor slabs at ambient and elevated temperature
  K.A. CASHELL , A.Y. ELGHAZOULI and B.A. IZZUDDIN

Session 8: Poster Session

• Behavior of steel building structures with perimeter MRFs under fire loading effects
  AMIT H. VARMA , ANIL AGARWAL , SANGDO HONG and KULDEEP PRASAD
  
  
• 3-D versus 2-D modelling of a high-rise steel framed building under fire
  SPENCER E. QUIEL and MARIA E.M. GARLOCK
  
  
• A new design method for industrial portal frames in fire
  Y. SONG, Z. HUANG, I. W. BURGESS and R. J. PLANK
  
  
• Fire performance of steel beam-columns under design fire exposures
  MAHMUD DWAIKAT and VENKATESH KODUR
  
  
• Column web panel at elevated temperature
  MICHAL STREJCEK , FRANTISEK WALD and ZDENEK SOKOL
  
  
• Connections during fire tests on building
  JIRI CHLOUBA , FRANTISEK WALD and ZDENEK SOKOL
  
  
• Post-earthquake performance of passive fire protection systems
  P.C.R. COLLIER
  
  
• Furnace testing of full-scale gypsum steel stud non-load bearing wall assemblies: Results of multi-laboratory testing in Canada, Japan, and USA
  SAMUEL L. MANZELLO, WILLIAM L. GROSSHANDLER and TENSEI MIZUKAMI
  
  
• A review of models for calculation of the charring rate of solid wood structural elements and glue-laminated beams/columns
  KATHINKA LEIKANGER FRIQUIN
  
  
• Results from two research programs on spalling of concrete
  LARS BOSTRÖM and ROBERT JANSSON
  
  
• Numerical modelling of thin-walled stainless steel structural elements in case of fire
  NUNO LOPES, PAULO VILA REAL, LUIS SIMÕES DA SILVA and JEAN-MARC FRANSSEN
  
  
• Load induced thermal strain: Implications for structural behaviour
  ANGUS LAW and MARTIN GILLIE
  
  
• Heat transfer modelling of connections
  KATE ANDERSON and MARTIN GILLIE
  
  
• Effects of fire on a concrete structure: Modelling the windsor tower
  IAN FLETCHER, STEPHEN WELCH, JORGE A. CAPOTE, DANIEL ALVEAR and MARIANO LÁZARO
  
  
• Effect of transient thermal strain on the buckling of slender concrete and concrete-filled columns in fire
  SHAN-SHAN HUANG, IAN BURGESS, ZHAO-HUI HUANG and ROGER PLANK
  
  
• Application of advanced calculation models for fire design in Romania
  RAUL ZAHARIA , DAN DUBINA and DAN PINTEA

Session 9: COMPOSITE STRUCTURES

(Chairman: František Wald)

• Thermal and structural response of a two-story, two-bay composite steel frame under fire loading
  YULI DONG and KULDEEP PRASAD
  
  
• Simple calculation method of composite cellular beams at elevated temperatures
  ALI NADJA, NATHAN GOODFELLOW, OLIVIER VASSART, FARIS ALI and SEGKWAN CHOI
  
  
• A new method to analyze the membrane action of composite floor slabs in fire condition
  NA-SI ZHANG and GUO-QIANG LI
  
  
• Fundamental behaviour and overall stability of steel-concrete composite columns under fire loading
  SANGDO HONG and AMIT H. VARMA
  
  
• Characteristics analysis of the performance design equations for the fire resistance of concrete-filled steel tube columns
  SUHEE PARK, KYUNGCHUL SONG, KYUNGSOO CHUNG and SUNGMO CHOI

Session 10: FIRE SAFETY ENGINEERING & FIRE PROTECTION

(Chairman: Peter Schaumann)

• Full scale test of a steel and concrete composite floor exposed to ISO fire
  BIN ZHAO, MOHSEN ROOSEFID and OLIVIER VASSART
  
  
• Prediction of intumescent coating performance under cone calorimeter - A mathematical approach for performance based
  J.F. YUAN and Y C. WANG
  
  
• The practical application of structural fire engineering on a retail development in the UK
  FLORIAN BLOCK, CHAOMING YU and NEAL BUTTERWORTH
  
  
• Experimental behaviour of steel columns with partial damage of fire retardant coating in fire
  GUO-QIANG LI and WEI-YONG WANG
  
  
• The Reliability of Structures in Fire
  DAVID LANGE, ASIF USMANI and JOSE TORERO
  
  
• A very simple method for assessing tall building safety in major fires
  ASIF USMANI

Session 11: STRUCTURAL MODELLING AND ANALYSIS

(Chairman: Martin Gillie)

• The impact of various material models on structural fire behavior prediction
  YNGVE ANDERBERG
  
  
• Dependable performance of steel structures in fire-The Britomart East Office Building
  MARTIN FEENEY, CHARLES CLIFTON and NANDOR MAGO
  
  
• Modelling the performance of non-loadbearing gypsum-protected steel stud walls in furnace and room fire tests
  MARSHALL SHARP, BARRY BADDERS and MARC JANSSENS
  
  
• Fire after earthquake
  DAN PINTEA, RAUL ZAHARIA, AUREL STRATAN and DAN DUBINA

Session 12: OTHER TOPICS

(Chairman: Buick Davison)

• Mechanical characterization of fibre reinforced polymers for numerical fire endurance modelling
  E. U. CHOWDHURY, R. EEDSON, L. A. BISBY, M. F. GREEN, N. BENICHOU, V.K.R. KODUR and E. FYFE
  
  
• Testing needs for the advancement of structural fire engineering
  NESTOR IWANKIW, CRAIG BEYLER and JESS BEITEL
  
  
• Tensile membrane action of composite slab panels in fire - simple VS. advanced models
  WEE SIANG TOH and NICK BERNABE
  
  
• Fire performance of steel reinforced concrete (Src) beam-to-column joints
  LIN-HAI HAN , YONG-QIAN ZHENG and ZHONG TAO
  
  
• The effects of non-uniform fires on structural behaviour
  MARTIN GILLIE , CHARLOTTE RÖBEN , ADAM IRVINE and SANDY KIRKPATRICK