• In situations like a big outbreak of fire in the building, the strength of

structural components must be good enough to keep the structure

intact so as to keep the inmates or residents safe.
• In normal cases the temperatures of fire is between 850 to 1075
degree Celsius.
• At this stage any structural steel component loses it’s 60% of load
bearing capacity.
• The inmates earlier, used to get around 14 minutes of time to get out
the house but according to the new survey this time has lapsed to 3-4
minutes due to wide use of synthetic material. Therefore it is
beneficial if the walls of the house itself prevent fire from spreading.
• Hence effect of fire on concrete is very crucial in such cases.

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 OBJECTIVE
• To study the behaviour of precast beam when subjected to fire
and compare it with the results of monolithic beam.

SCOPE OF WORK
• To compare the results of precast beam to beam wet
connection with monolithic connection.
• Casting of 2 monolithic and 4 precast jointed beams of length
1m.
• Perform Destructive and NDT tests on the monolithic and
precast beams and then compare the results.

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Literature Review
• Research Paper : Effects of Fire on flexural behaviour of RC beam
• Author : Moetaz M. El-Hawary*t, Ahmed M. RagabS, Ahmed
Abd El-Azim and Shadia Elibiarif
• Source : Construction and Building Materials, Vol. 10(2), 1996

The effect of fire on the flexural behaviour of RC beams is investigated for 4 groups of RC Beams
at 650 degree Celsius for time durations of 0, 30, 60, 120min. The compressive strength of
concrete is determined non-distructively using Schmidt hammer. Strains, Load, crack propagation
and ultimate loads are recorded and the beams are tested in flexure by applying two transverse
loads incrementally,
After experiment it is observed that:
1. The ultimate loads for beams exposed to fire for 30, 60, 120min are less than that for the
reference beam by 11.8, 19.3, and 38.7% respectively.
2. At a load equal to about 61% of the ultimate load of the reference beam, the maximum
deflection of the beam subjected to fire ranged between 1.9 and 3.4 times that of the
reference beam.

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• Research Paper : Fire resistance of reinforced concrete rigid beams
• Author : Mohammed Mansour Kadhum
• Source : Journal of civil engineering and construction
technology, Vol. 4(4), 2014

In this experiment the specimens were subjected to fire flame temperatures ranging from (25-750
degree Celsius) at age of 60 days, two temperature levels of 400 and 750 degree Celsius were
chosen with exposure duration of 1.5 hr.
Test results indicate a remarkable reduction in the ultrasonic pulse velocity and rebound number
of the rigid beams cooled in water were (2-5%) more than the rigid beam specimens cooled in air.
Also, it was noticed that the maximum crack width increases with increasing fire temperature.

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 • Research Paper : Evaluation of Fire Damage to a Precast Concrete
Structure Non-destructive, Laboratory, and Load Testing
• Author : Ufuk Dilek, P.E.
• Source : Journal of performance of constructed facilities, 2005

This paper discusses that how Non-destructive,

Laboratory and Load testing were conducted on a fire
affected three-level precast concrete parking Garage. For
the evaluation of fire damage following tests were
performed:-

NDT Tests : UPV Test, Radiographic Exposures.

Semi destructive test: Test on the removed core like air
permeability index, visual inspection, dynamic young’s
modulus of elasticity

ter the tests were conducted, it is observed that NDT tests

are helpful in determining the material properties, But it
could not define the condition of prestressing.

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• Research Paper : Behaviour of reinforced concrete beams when
partially exposed to fire
• Author : Mohammad Suhaib Ahmad
• Source : International Journal of Advances in Mechanical and
Civil Engineering, Vol. 3(2), 2016.

In the real cases whenever the structures are subjected to fire, They are not subjected uniformly
from all the sides, only the particular sides of the structures are subjected to the extreme
conditions of fire.
But when the experiment are performed on the individual elements in the fire chamber, the
elements are uniformly subjected to fire from all sides.
To study the effect on beam when partially subjected or exposed to fire, the reinforced concrete
beams are partially exposed to fire then tests are performed on the specimen. The result of test are
then compared to the results of beams which are not subject to fire and the beams which are
uniformly subjected to fire.

Conclusion : When the beams are exposed to fire either partially or fully and sufficient cover is
provided to resist the fire as per standard, then their results not vary significantly.

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• Research Paper : Behaviour of R.C. Beams Under Elevated
Temperature
Author : Jayasree.G, Lakshmipathy.M and Santhanaselvi.S
Source : Journal of structural fire engineering, Vol. 2(1), 2011

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Types of beams No. of beams Conditions
Monolithic beam 1 Controlled
Monolithic beam 1 900 °C
Precast beam 2 Controlled
Precast beam 2 900 °C

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Design of Monolithic Beam
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Formwork with reinforcement for monolithic beams 10
• M25 Concrete :- 0.0945m3
• Steel Fe 500
• TMT(8mm)  22.46Kg
• TMT (10mm) 13.38Kg

• Material Quantities:

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Design of Precast wet Beam
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Formwork with reinforcement for precast beams 14
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Precast beams after concreting
Precast Beams 16
Cubes for Compressive strength test

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• Compressive strength test on cube
• NDT Test
Ultra pulse velocity test
Rebound Hammer

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Test results of cube, Compressive test

• After 28 days
• Date: 31/03/2018
• M25 Grade of concrete
• Size of cube: 150mm x 150mm x 150mm
Cube Number Compressive Strength (N/mm2)
1 34.2
2 32.3
3 31.6

• Date: 01/04/2018
• M25 Grade of concrete
• Size of cube: 150mm x 150mm x 150mm
Cube Number Compressive Strength (N/mm2)
1 34.9
2 33.6
3 33.1

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