INFLUENCE OF SLAB THICKNESS ON RESPONSES OF CONCRETE WALLS UNDER FIRE

For the purpose of fire safety, concrete walls with different thicknesses exposed to the fire course described by ASTM E119 and the following decay stage specified in ISO 834 standard are considered. A mathematical model, simulating the coupled heat and mass transfer in concrete walls under time-dependent boundary conditions, has been developed and numerically solved. The results predict the pore pressure, temperature, and moisture histories for different concrete wall thicknesses at various depth thickness ratios. The results show that, under fire, thinner slabs are more vulnerable to damages and ruptures than thicker ones.