Steel structures can be protected against the effects of fully-developed fires by the use of sprayed on materials, board systems and intumescent paints, etc. or by using sufficiently large unprotected elements.
In an intensively managed region of New Brunswick, Canada, we conducted an ecosystem-based representation assessment and prioritised the unprotected elements with a combined biological and socio-economic ranking criteria.
The research project of the Czech Technical University in Prague was focussed on the examination of the temperature development within the various unprotected structural elements and its connections, the corresponding distribution of horizontal forces and the behaviour of the laterally unrestrained beams during the natural fire.
Ours has been travelling in its birthday suit, unprotected from the elements and hazardous surfaces.
Any substantial rainfall would force a cancellation, Ms. Moss announced from the stage, for the players, and more to the point, their valuable instruments were unprotected from the elements.
Relatively unprotected from the elements, the blocks began to leak and sag.
He left behind 69 cars, entirely unprotected from the elements, and a disputed estate possibly worth millions.
At least five refugees have died due to cold this winter (one was killed when their tent caught fire as they were desperately trying to keep warm in the snow), and thousands more are unprotected from the elements.
There, entirely unprotected from the elements (though in some places obscured by large trees), was a collection of 69 vintage cars: Model As, Model Ts, vintage Mercedes, Volkswagen bugs and buses, as well as piles of tires and engines and other assorted spare parts.
"It does suggest that unprotected action, an element of anarchy, can be easily rewarded".
For example, a network segment has been left unprotected, a data element has accidentally revealed or a system has been left unpatched.
