This webinar is designed to provide structural engineers and building officials with a deeper understanding of the fire resistance of concrete structures including fire damage assessment and repair, improving fire rating, and fire protection for externally bonded reinforcement such as FRP.
Properly designed concrete structures have inherent fire resistance that typically allows these structures to withstand fire exposure without additional fire protection. However, fire can cause significant damage to concrete structural members and results in concrete spalling and changes to the steel metallurgy that reduced the residual strength after the event. Proper assessment of the fire-damaged elements should be carried out in order the determine the level and extend of damage and develop repairs. In this class, the effects of fire on existing concrete and steel reinforcement is discussed, various in-situ testing and analytical methods to determine fire resistance are described and case studies are presented for determining fire resistance and protection for FRP strengthened structures.
Our Presenter, Tarek Alkhrdaji, PhD, P.E., P.Eng. is Vice President of Engineering with Structural Technologies. He has been involved in more than 500 projects involving structural repair and strengthening. Many of these have received awards from ACI, PTI and ICRI. He is an active member of several professional committees including ACI Committee 440 (FRP Strengthening) and ACI Committee 562 (Repair Code) and ACI 216 (Fire Resistance) and has written more than 40 papers and articles on repair and strengthening of structures. Dr Alkhrdaji is the current chair of ACI Committee 562-F (Fire) and ICRI Committee 330 (Strengthening and Stabilization).
Participants in the live event will have an opportunity to ask questions.
As a result of attending this webinar, you should be able to: