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Citation

Chlouba J, Wald F. Fire Safety J. 2012; 54: 121-129.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.firesaf.2012.08.008

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

When subject to fire, structural steel and connectors lose both their strength and stiffness. Structures expand when heated and contract on cooling. Furthermore, the effect of restrained thermal movement can introduce high strains in both the steel member and the associated connections. Fire tests on steel structures have shown that the temperature within the connections is lower compared to the connected steel members. The beneficial effect of the partial embedding of a connection in a concrete slab for its resistance in fire conditions was already intuitively utilised by structural engineers. Three sets of tests provide the measuring of the accuracy of the developed numerical and analytical model for heat transfer and temperature distribution in the partially embedded connections. The connection shadow factor is proposed further to allow the prediction of temperatures in connections from the calculated gas temperature during a post-flashover fire.

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