25.0 mph 26 degree crabbed moving barrier impact tests into a 26 degree load cell barrier face. Test #1: NHTSA deformable barrier face. Test #2: EEVC deformable barrier face. Test report.

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Light truck aggressivity study - test report 1 - truck-to-car head-on impact tests. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Light truck aggressivity study - test report 2: truck-to-car 90 degree left side impact tests. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Light truck aggressivity study. Test report 3: truck-to-car right offset impact tests. Final report.

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Washington, D.C.

Safety assessment of Denver Type I and Standard Type II Barricades via full scale tests. Volume I: executive summary. Final report.

Federal Highway Administration, Office of Research and Development, Washington, D.C.

Safety assessment of Denver Type I and Standard Type II Barricades via full scale tests. Volume II. Final report.

Federal Highway Administration, Office of Research and Development, Washington, D.C.

Full scale fire tests of a new light gauge steel floor-ceiling system

Cold-formed steel members can be assembled in various combinations to provide cost-efficient and safe light gauge floor systems for buildings. Such Light gauge Steel Framing (LSF) systems are widely accepted in industrial and commercial building construction. An example application is in floor-ceiling systems. Light gauge steel floor-ceiling systems must be designed to serve as fire compartment boundaries and provide adequate fire resistance. Fire-rated floor-ceiling assemblies formed with new materials and construction methodologies have been increasingly used in buildings. However, limited research has been undertaken in the past and hence a thorough understanding of their fire resistance behaviour is not available. Recently a new composite floor-ceiling system has been developed to provide higher fire rating under standard fire conditions. But its increased fire rating could not be determined using the currently available design methods. Therefore a research project was carried out to investigate its structural and fire resistance behaviour under standard fire conditions. In this research project full scale experimental tests of the new LSF floor system based on a composite ceiling unit were undertaken using a gas furnace at the Queensland University of Technology. Both the conventional and the new steel floor-ceiling systems were tested under structural and fire loads. Full scale fire tests provided a good understanding of the fire behaviour of the LSF floor-ceiling systems and confirmed the superior performance of the new composite system. This paper presents the details of this research into the structural and fire behaviour of light gauge steel floor systems protected by the new composite panel, and the results.

Novel loading tests on full-scale tapered member portal frames

This paper presents the experimental results of loading tests on two 18m span tapered member portal frames designed to BS 5950. Deflection test results for vertical, lateral and combined loading cases are compared with the predictions given by elastic analysis to BS 5950 and shown to be favourable. The predicted ultimate capacities and modes of failure, which were by lateral-torsional buckling of the columns, were also found to agree with the experimental behaviour. It was found that the method of modelling the tapered members as a series of prismatic elements gave good comparison with test results.