... configuration and fire scenario. Originality/value This paper presents results from numerical studies on the response of fire exposed composite girders subjected to dominant flexural and shear loading. Finite element analysis Instability Shear Composite action Composite girders Fire resistance tests...

...Ruirui Sun; Ian Burgess; Zhaohui Huang A static/dynamic version of the software Vulcan has recently been developed, in which the numerical singularity of a static analysis, induced by a local instability of a structure, for instance the buckling of a column, can be covered by switching...