Journal of Structural Fire Engineering: Volume 6 Issue 1

Analysis of Composite Steel-concrete Beams Exposed to Fire using OpenSees

Jian Jiang, Guo-Qiang Li, Asif Usmani

OpenSees is an open-source object-oriented software framework developed at UC Berekeley. The OpenSees framework has been recently extended to deal with structural behaviour under…

Reduction of Connection Resistance During Veselí Fire Tests

Tomáš Jána, František Wald

The paper is focused to the temperature distribution in the reverse channel connections to concrete filled tubular column during two fire tests on an experimental building in…

Principles of Verification and Validation

Leslaw Kwasniewski, Cezary Bojanowski

This paper discusses the concepts of verification and validation in computational mechanics with special attention to structural fire engineering, by referring to recently…

Protected Steel and Composite Connections: Simulation of the Mechanical Behaviour of Steel and Composite Connections Protected by Intumescent Coating in Fire

Peter Schaumann, Thomas Kirsch

Actual developments in numerical simulations of the structural behaviour in fire situation are focussed on taking into consideration the interaction of all structural members in a…

On the Experimental Analysis of Temperature Influence on Stiffness of Reinforced Concrete Beams

Robert Kowalski, Michal Glowacki, Marian Abramowicz

The paper presents results of experimental research whose main topic was determination of stiffness reduction in bent reinforced concrete beams in two cases: when only tensioned…

Mechanical Response under Natural Fire of Barrel Shape Shell Structure

Michal Malendowski, Adam Glema, Zdzislaw Kurzawa, Lukasz Polus

In this paper, thermo-mechanical analysis of the structural shell construction exposed to natural fire is presented. A barrel shape coverlet with dimensions of 40m x 80m is a roof…

Recuring Studies on Concretes Subjected to Elevated Temperatures and Suddenly Cooled by Water Quenching

Subhash Yaragal, Murugesh Kittur, K. Narayan

Concrete is found to undergo degradation when subjected to elevated temperatures during an accidental event, such as fire and lose substantial amount of its original strength. The…