1. What is a fire rating?

- The length of time in a standard fire that a member is able to perform before the
first critical point of behavior is reached.

2. What is standard fire?

- ASTME 119 build a special room, in that room it has fire, and you build some kind of
structural system and on the opposite side they measure stresses, strains and
temperatures of what happens and, in that room, they subject that system to this
temperature. Standard fire is based on something

3. What are the variables that effect the temp in a fire?

- What is burning?
- Distribution of fire
- Ventilation
- Geometry of the room
- RH of the air

4. What is the critical point of behavior?

- Walls/Slabs
- Columns

5. Comparing different common materials within the building, how many hours of fire rating
are the following?

5.a. concrete

- 4 hours

5.b. steel

- 2 hours

5.c. wood

- less than 2 hours sometimes as low as 1 hour