Research and Applications in Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation – Zingoni (Ed.)
© 2013 Taylor & Francis Group, London, ISBN 978-1-138-00061-2
Development of a simplified design method to predict the fire rating
of LSF walls
S. Gunalan & M. Mahendran
Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
ABSTRACT: Recent fire research into the behaviour of light gauge steel frame (LSF) wall systems has devel-
oped fire design rules based on Australian and European cold-formed steel design standards. However, these
design rules are complex since the LSF wallstuds are subjected to non-uniform elevated temperature distributions
when the walls are exposed to fire from one side. Therefore this paper proposes an alternative design ...