...Andrea Lucherini; Donatella de Silva Purpose Intumescent coatings are nowadays a dominant passive system used to protect structural materials in case of fire. Due to their reactive swelling behaviour, intumescent coatings are particularly complex materials to be modelled and predicted, which can...

... and expanded perlite. Fire experiment FE modelling. Findings The temperatures of the protected steel and the formation of cracks in the protective layer were investigated. Based on the experiments, the thermal conductivities of the two protective layers were determined. Conclusions are presented...

...Kristi L. Selden; Amit H. Varma Purpose The purpose of this study was to develop a three-dimensional (3D) finite element modeling (FEM) technique using the commercially available program ABAQUS to predict the thermal and structural behavior of composite beams under fire loading. Design...

...Jean-Marc Franssen; Bin Zhao; Thomas Gernay Purpose The purpose of this paper is to gain from experimental tests an insight into the failure mode of slender steel columns subjected to fire. The tests will also be used to validate a numerical model. Design/methodology/approach A series...

... behaviour in the tests before they were conducted. This assessment was conducted using the specialist structural fire engineering FEA program Vulcan. This paper reports the results of this predictive analysis. Modelling Fire Test Connection Composite Columns Robustness Newman, G. M...

...Zhaohui Huang In this paper a robust 2-noded connection element has been presented for modelling the bolted end-plate connections between steel beam and column at elevated temperatures. The connection element allows the element nodes to be placed at the reference plane with offset and the non...