Structures 6 (2016) 182

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Corrigendum

Corrigendum to “Improved formulation of travelling fires and application

to concrete and steel structures”
[Structures 3 (2015) 250–260]

Egle Rackauskaite, Guillermo Rein ⁎

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Imperial College London, UK

There have been minor errors and misprints discovered in the equa- • Equation 5 should be revised as:
tions 3, 5, 10, 11, and 26 of the published article. The misprinted ver-
sions are as follows:
A f ¼ L  Lt  W ð5Þ
0
2=3
_
BQ=r
T max −T ∞ ¼ 5:38@ ð3Þ • Equation 10 should be revised as:
H

″ !2=3
L Lt W Q_
″
A f ¼ L  Lt  W  Q_ ð5Þ T max ðx; t Þ ¼ T ∞ þ
5:38
  ð10Þ
H x þ 0:5 L L −x_ t 
t
0
″ 2=3
5:38 @ L Lt W Q_
T max ðx; t Þ ¼ T ∞ þ  ð10Þ
H x þ 0:5 L Lt −x_ t • Equation 11 should be revised as:


 T max ðx; t Þ ¼ T nf ; if  ff NT nf ; 
T  ð11Þ
T ff NT nf ; x þ 0:5 L L −x_ t  ≤0:5 L L :
T max ðx; t Þ ¼ T nf ; if ð11Þ t t
x þ 0:5 L Lt −x_ t ≤0:5L f :

0 0
2=3 1 • Equation 26 should be revised as:

Z Z _
BQ=r
r2 r2
B C
A2 ¼ T max ðr Þdr ¼ @T ∞ þ 5:38@ Adr
r x2 r x2 H 0 
2=3 1
Z r2 Z r2 _
Q=r
16:14Q_
2=3 
B C
A2 ¼ T max ðr Þdr ¼ @T ∞ þ 5:38 Adr
¼ T ∞ ðr 2 −rx2 Þ þ r 2 1=3 −r x2 1=3 ð26Þ r x2 r x2 H
H
16:14Q_
2=3 

!3=2 ¼ T ∞ ðr 2 −r x2 Þ þ r 2 1=3 −r x2 1=3 ð26Þ
5:38 H
r0 ¼   ð19Þ and ð23Þ
H T nf −T ∞

The corrected versions should be as follows: • Equation 19 and 23 should be revised as:

• Equation 3 should be revised as: !3=2

5:38
r 0 ¼ Q_   ð19Þ and ð23Þ

2=3 H T nf −T ∞
_
Q=r
T max −T ∞ ¼ 5:38 ð3Þ
H
Also, there has been an error noticed in one sentence in the Appendix
DOI of original article: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2015.06.001.
B. "Using Alpert’s correlation function [29] the near-field temperatures
⁎ Corresponding author. over a certain distance” should be corrected to "Using Alpert’s correlation
E-mail address: g.rein@imperial.ac.uk (G. Rein). function [29] the far-field temperatures over a certain distance”.

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