... frames are a serious alternative to traditional load-bearing structures in low- and medium-rise buildings. Bracing Composite frames Fire performance Partial fire exposure Semi-rigid joints Varying fire location Unbraced composite frames offer many gains as bearing structure. Cross...

... frames at elevated temperatures. The collapse behaviour of a simple rigid-jointed beam idealisation and a more accurate semi-rigid jointed shell element idealisation are compared for two different fire scenarios. For the case of the shell element idealisation, the semi-rigidity of the cold-formed steel...