Presenter: Brian Meacham, Jin-Kyung Kim and Haejun Park

What happens if fire breaks out in a five-story building that has just gone through a 7.9 magnitude earthquake? To find out, a unique collaboration between government, academia, and industry conducted a $5 million test program involving construction of a five-story building on the world’s largest outdoor shake table at UC San Diego, subjecting the building to a range of ground motions, and then conducting live fire tests in various areas of the building. This session will outline the range of building and fire protection systems that were studied, describe the fire test program that was designed and carried out by WPI researchers and their project partners, and present representative data and preliminary findings on fire performance of the building and fire protection systems.