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The heated perimeter of the steel member varies depending on the protection applied<br />

to the member, ie sprayed protection which has the section profile or board protection<br />

which boxes the section. When the member is exposed to the fire on less than four<br />

sides the ration can be calculated according to the table below. The cross sectional<br />

area is always the area of the steel section. The UK <strong>and</strong> international practice is also to<br />

use these values.<br />

An alternative method of giving the general size of the beam with a single value is the<br />

Australian method of the ratio if exposed surface area to mass per unit length. This<br />

value gives the same information as the H p /A value, with a constant factor of 7.85,<br />

which is the density of steel in tonnes/kg 3 .<br />

Figure 1.4: Variations of Hp/A for different methods of protection, (EC3 1995).<br />

Many publications give the H p /A value for a range of beam sizes, but the calculation is<br />

not difficult using the width <strong>and</strong> depth of the beam, if the radii <strong>and</strong> fillets of the section<br />

are ignored.<br />

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