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Advanced Analysis and Design for Fire Safety of Steel Structures pp 189–244Cite as

Fire-Resistance of Restrained Steel Columns

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Traditionally, the fire resistance of a steel column is obtained through a standard fire resistance test conducted on a simply supported compressive specimen subjected to the standard fire exposure, such as ISO834[1]. Although the standard fire resistance test is a convenient way for grading the relative fire performance of different types of structural members, for a number of reasons it is not very effective in developing our understanding of realistic structural behavior in a fire. An important shortcoming is that standard fire resistance tests are carried out on the individual structural member, not on a complete structure. Therefore, structural interactions cannot be assessed. The Broadgate fire[2,3] and the series of Cardington fire tests and the following theoretical analysis[4,5,6] have all shown that strong interactions exist among slabs, columns and beams. An effective way of studying structural interactions in a fire is to perform fire tests on restrained steel members.

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Li, G., Wang, P. (2013). Fire-Resistance of Restrained Steel Columns. In: Advanced Analysis and Design for Fire Safety of Steel Structures. Advanced Topics in Science and Technology in China. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34393-3_8

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