Session Dates

06 Nov 2014

Abstract

An innovative load-bearing cold-formed steel (CFS) wall lined with gypsum composite panels was developed with the goal of improving the construction efficiency and fire performance of these walls for applications in mid/high-rise buildings. The gypsum composite panel was formed by sandwiching insulation and plasterboard strips between two layers of gypsum plasterboards. Subsequently, the predicted fire resistance of these CFS walls was predicted based on our previously developed and experimentally validated modeling method. The degenerated material properties of the cold-formed steel and thermal physical property of the gypsum plasterboard and aluminum silicate wool were obtained from our pervious experimental investigations and used as the basic input parameters in the present fire resistance modeling. The results showed that the fire performance of the CFS walls lined with gypsum composite panels improved greatly. The configuration details and corresponding design load levels were also determined for the CFS walls with a fire resistant rating of 120 and 150 min.

Department(s)

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

Research Center/Lab(s)

Wei-Wen Yu Center for Cold-Formed Steel Structures

Sponsor(s)

Ministry of Science and Technology of China

Meeting Name

22nd International Specialty Conference on Cold-Formed Steel Structures

Publisher

Missouri University of Science and Technology

Document Version

Final Version

Rights

© 2014 Missouri University of Science and Technology, All rights reserved.

Comments

This research is sponsored by the National Key Technology Research and Development Program of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China (2011BAJ08B04)

Document Type

Article - Conference proceedings

File Type

text

Language

English

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Fire Resistance Prediction of Load Bearing Cold-Formed Steel Walls Lined with Gypsum Composite Panels

An innovative load-bearing cold-formed steel (CFS) wall lined with gypsum composite panels was developed with the goal of improving the construction efficiency and fire performance of these walls for applications in mid/high-rise buildings. The gypsum composite panel was formed by sandwiching insulation and plasterboard strips between two layers of gypsum plasterboards. Subsequently, the predicted fire resistance of these CFS walls was predicted based on our previously developed and experimentally validated modeling method. The degenerated material properties of the cold-formed steel and thermal physical property of the gypsum plasterboard and aluminum silicate wool were obtained from our pervious experimental investigations and used as the basic input parameters in the present fire resistance modeling. The results showed that the fire performance of the CFS walls lined with gypsum composite panels improved greatly. The configuration details and corresponding design load levels were also determined for the CFS walls with a fire resistant rating of 120 and 150 min.