...Jinhua Sun Purpose This study is to investigate the thermal behavior of steel columns exposed to different localized vehicle fire scenarios in parking structures. Design/methodology/approach A computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulation of vehicle fires was conducted using Fire Dynamics...

...Abolfazl Yoosofpoor Avandari; Gholamreza Nouri; Mohammad Ali Morovat; Jafar Keyvani Ghamsari Purpose This study focuses on the impact of creep on the behavior of steel columns at elevated temperatures, considering both loading rates and creep buckling. The loading rate directly influences...

... because of the complexity of the problem. There is also a lack of experimental data. We report here on a full scale test series on a steel column exposed to localized fires. The setup is a 6 meters tall hollow circular column, ϕ = 200 mm with a steel thickness of 10 mm. The unloaded column was hanging...

...Chao Zhang; Guo-Qiang Li The popular CFD code FDS is adopted to predict the thermal behaviors of steel columns exposed to localized fires. Two real localized fire tests (one surrounded fire test that the column is inside the fire source and one adjacent fire test that the column is adjacent...