This Digest is part of a suite of related documents containing guidance for the construction
industry on structural fire engineering design. The intention is to produce performance …

Many fire models have been proposed to investigate structural response to fire, where fire is
considered as a structural “load” and the structural response determines the “resistance” …

Several simplified calculation methods have been developed for structural fire design. Their
function is to bridge the gap between element classification according to design tables …

The aim of using fire protection in a building is to reduce the rate of temperature rise of its
structural components in case of fire. For protected structural steel, the thermal properties of …

More and more countries are now permitting a classification of structural elements with
respect to fire exposure to be formulated analytically as an alternative to the internationally …

This paper presents an interface model to perform a one-way coupling between a fire
simulation (CFD model) and a structural analysis (FEM model) aimed at performance-based …

The OpenSees framework has been extended to deal with frame structures under fire
conditions. OpenSees is an object-oriented, open source software framework developed at …

The assessment of structural behaviour in fire will become increasingly based on calculation
methods in the future as they show considerable economies when compared with traditional …

To design a steel structure in fire is necessary to know its temperature. Using the data from
many experimental fire tests, Margaret Law estimated the maximum temperature in a …

Purpose The purpose of this study is to contribute toward providing the main aspects of
numerical modeling the fire behavior of steel structures with finite elements (FEs). The …