posed to an actual fire. There was a need that the of relatively stiff lattice girder : to demonstrate act in similar that the design criteria I-section could be applied to lattice girders. in traditional building frame, protection specification application can often be optimised since to strong not to break up and fall into the as each girder failed, ligftt to prevent composite action developing be- slab and girder top chord. 2.1 Deflection criteria are traditional criteria for the failure of

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posed to an actual fire. There was a need that the of relatively stiff lattice girder

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posed to an actual fire. There was a need to demonstrate that the members of a relatively stiff SHS lattice girder would act in a similar way and that the same test and design criteria used for I-section beams could be applied to SHS lattice girders.