FULL SCALE FIRE TESTS ON A REINFORCED CONCRETE HIGH RISE STRUCTURE IN GLASGOW

该提案寻求资金，以便对即将在混凝土结构上进行的防火测试进行彻底的仪器检测。通过测量温度和挠度等数据，就有可能确定结构和火灾本身的行为，从而对未来如何设计更安全的建筑物提出建议。火灾行为的几个方面将被检查，包括混凝土地板和墙壁的结构行为；类似于倒塌的世贸中心大楼中使用的桁架的性能；疏散路线上的烟雾移动；以及有时用于混凝土建筑的修复系统的坚固性。火灾试验本身是由“地平线”电视节目资助的，而进行试验的大楼是废弃的。这意味着可以从通常需要花费数百万英镑的测试中获得数据，而只需花费其中的一小部分。

This proposal seeks funds to allow fire tests that are due to take place on a concrete structure to be thoroughly instrumented. By measuring quantities such as temperatures and deflections it will be possible to ascertain how the structure and the fire itself behave and thus make suggestions about how buildings can be designed more safely in the future. Several aspects of behaviour in fire will be examined including the structural behaviour of concrete floors and walls; the behaviour of a truss similar to those used in the World Trade Center buildings that collapsed; smoke movement in evacuation routes; and the robustness of repair systems that are sometimes used on concrete buildings. The fire tests themselves are being funded by the Horizon television programme and the building in which they take place is derelict. This means it is possible to obtain data from tests that would normally cost millions of pounds, for only a small fraction of this cost.