Journal of Structural Fire Engineering: Volume 6 Issue 2

The Collapse Behaviour of Cold-formed Steel Portal Frames at Elevated Temperatures

Ross P. D. Johnston, Mohammed Sonebi, James B. P. Lim, Cecil G. Armstrong, Andrzej M. Wrzesien, Gasser Abdelal, Ying Hu

This paper describes the results of non-linear elasto-plastic implicit dynamic finite element analyses that are used to predict the collapse behaviour of cold-formed steel portal…

Fire Resistance Performance of Welded Built-up Square CFT Columns with Reduced Intumescent Paint

SunHee Kim, KyongSoo Yom, SungMo Choi

Welded built-up square CFT columns are widely employed in construction field thanks to their structural efficiencies by avoiding stress concentration area and improving…

Interactive Interoperability Between Firefighters and Fire Protection Equipment

Kamila Horová, Slavomír Entler, František Wald

In 2005 coal handling bridges in Opatovice power station, Czech Republic, were damaged by fire. Effects of the fire limited coal supply for 3 months. Following that fire the new…

Numerical Study of Steel Beams in Sub-frame Assembly Validation of Existing Hand Calculation Procedures

Naveed Iqbal, Tim Heistermann, Milan Veljkovic, Fernanda Lopes, Aldina Santiago, Luis Simões da Silva

The design methods currently proposed by the codes prescribe the strength assessment of structures to be based on their strength limit state. These design methods can be applied…

Influence of Zinc Coating to a Temperature of Steel Members in Fire

Jiri Jirku, Frantisek Wald

This paper describes effect of hot dip galvanizing of steel structure surfaces to temperature of steel members in the fire conditions. Temperature of the set of specimens was…

Fire Test of Timber-fibre Concrete Composite Floor

Eva Caldová, František Wald, Anna Kuklíková

The subject of this paper is a description of experimental programme of timber-fibre concrete floor in fire. Furnace test was performed on one full-size floor specimen at the Fire…