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Foreword
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions, symbols and units
   3.1 Terms and definitions
   3.2 Symbols and units
4 Test equipment
   4.1 General
   4.2 Furnace
   4.3 Loading equipment
5 Test conditions
   5.1 General
   5.2 Support and loading conditions
        5.2.1 Loaded beams
        5.2.2 Unloaded beams
        5.2.3 Loaded columns
        5.2.4 Unloaded columns
   5.3 Loading
6 Test specimens
   6.1 Number of test specimens
        6.1.1 General
        6.1.2 Passive fire protection systems
        6.1.3 Reactive fire protection systems
        6.1.4 Precautions against erroneous results
   6.2 Size of test specimens
        6.2.1 Loaded beam test sections
        6.2.2 Unloaded beam test sections
        6.2.3 Loaded column test sections
        6.2.4 (Unloaded) Tall column test sections
        6.2.5 Short column test sections
   6.3 Construction of steel test specimens
        6.3.1 Loaded beam test sections
        6.3.2 Unloaded beam test sections
        6.3.3 Loaded column test sections
        6.3.4 Unloaded tall column test section
        6.3.5 Short steel column test sections
        6.3.6 Application of the fire protection material to
               the steel test section
   6.4 Composition of test specimen component materials
        6.4.1 Steel sections
        6.4.2 Fire protection system
   6.5 Properties of test specimen component materials
        6.5.1 Steel
        6.5.2 Fire protection materials
   6.6 Verification of the test specimen
7 Installation of the test specimens
7 Installation of the test specimens
   7.1 Loaded beam
   7.2 Unloaded beam
   7.3 Loaded columns
   7.4 Unloaded columns
   7.5 Test specimen installation patterns
8 Conditioning of the test specimens
9 Application of instrumentation
   9.1 General
   9.2 Instrumentation for measurement of furnace temperature
        9.2.1 General
        9.2.2 Furnace temperature in the region of beam test
               specimens
        9.2.3 Furnace temperature in the region of column test
               specimens
   9.3 Instrumentation for measurement of steel temperatures
        9.3.1 General
        9.3.2 Loaded beam test specimens
        9.3.3 Unloaded beam test specimens
        9.3.4 Loaded column test specimens
        9.3.5 Unloaded tall column test specimen
        9.3.6 Short column test specimens
   9.4 Instrumentation for the measurement of pressure
   9.5 Instrumentation for the measurement of deformation
   9.6 Instrumentation for the measurement of load
10 Test procedure
   10.1 General
   10.2 Furnace temperature and pressure
   10.3 Application and control of load
        10.3.1 Loaded beams
        10.3.2 Loaded columns
   10.4 Temperature of steelwork
   10.5 Deformation
   10.6 Observations
   10.7 Termination of test
11 Test results
   11.1 Acceptability of test results
   11.2 Presentation of test results
12 Test report
   12.1 General
13 Assessment
   13.1 General
   13.2 All fire protection systems
        13.2.1 General
        13.2.2 Temperature of steel sections
        13.2.3 Correction for discrepancy in thickness
        13.2.4 Correction of temperature data for stickability
   13.3 Reactive fire protection systems
        13.3.1 General
        13.3.2 Correction of temperature data for localised high
               temperature
        13.3.3 Correction for discrepancy in thickness
        13.3.4 Correction to temperature data for stickability
        13.3.5 Choice of k[d](theta)
   13.4 Presentation of data to be used in the assessment
   13.5 Assessment procedures for thermal performance
        13.5.1 General
        13.5.2 Differential equation analysis method
        13.5.3 Numerical regression analysis method
        13.5.4 Graphical analysis method
   13.6 Acceptability of the assessment method used and the
        resulting analysis
        13.6.1 Criteria for acceptability
        13.6.2 Modification of the analysis
   13.7 Three and four sided exposure
14 Report of the assessment
15 Limits of the applicability of the results of the assessment
   A.1 Introduction
   A.2 Test equipment
   A.3 Test specimens
   A.4 Termination of test
   A.5 Evaluation of the results
   B.1 Structural hollow sections
   B.2 Angles, channels and 't' sections
   C.1 Introduction
   C.2 Thickness of fire protection materials
   C.3 Density of applied fire protection materials
   C.4 Moisture content of applied fire protection materials
   D.1 Introduction
   D.2 Types of thermocouples
   D.3 Fixing of thermocouples
   D.4 Routing of thermocouple wires
   D.5 Connection of thermocouples
   D.6 Thermocouple failures
   F.1 Input data
   F.2 Basic Equation
   F.3 Methodology
   G.1 Input data
   G.2 Basic Equation
   G.3 Methodology
   H.1 Data
   H.2 Basic Equation
   H.3 Methodology
   I.1 Data
   I.2 Methodology
Bibliography

BS EN 13381-4