Journal of Structural Fire Engineering: Volume 4 Issue 1

A Structural Fire Engineering Prediction for the Veselí Fire Tests, 2011

Shan-Shan Huang, Ian Burgess, Buick Davison

Fire hazards and full-scale structural tests have provided evidence that the beam-column connections of building frames are the weakest structural elements, which are vulnerable…

Structural Response of Steel High Rise Buildings to Fire: System Characteristics and Failure Mechanisms

Filippo Gentili, Luisa Giuliani, Franco Bontempi

Due to the significant vertical elevation and complexity of the structural system, high rise buildings may suffer from the effects of fire more than other structures. For this…

Loading-bearing Capacity Method for Structural Fire Safety Design - A Case Study

Du Yong, Li Guo-qiang

Calculation methods have been developed for application to advanced fire-resistance design. The loading-bearing capacity method involves the performance of a structural analysis…

Stochastic Analysis of Structures in Fire by Monte Carlo Simulation

Kaihang Shi, Qianru Guo, Ann Jeffers

This paper describes a preliminary study to explore the use of Monte Carlo simulation to assess the reliability of structures in fire given uncertainty in the fire, thermal, and…

Axial restraint Effects on Fire Resistance of Statically Indeterminate RC Beams

Meri Cvetkovska, Koce Todorov, Ljupco Lazarov

The non uniform temperature fields in the cross section of the structural elements exposed to fire cause thermal dilatations which induce internal forces. In same time temperature…

Coupled Structural-thermal Calculations for Restrained Steel Columns in Fire

Lasław Kwaśniewski, Faris Ali, Marcin Balcerzak

This work presents a coupled structural-thermal numerical analysis of restrained steel columns under elevated temperatures. The modeling is based on the experimental tests carried…