The main aim of the current project was to develop accurate, practical and economic simple design rules for fire resistance assessment of class 4 cross-section steel members through enhanced scientific findings on the basis of both experimental and numerical investigations. In the scope of this...

Designers paid to date little attention to unbraced composite frames as a structural system for buildings. Two main reasons hindered a more frequent application. First, normative regulations lack simplified methods for the fire design of unbraced composite frames. This can be attributed to their...

During the last decade, the fire performance of the joints of steel structures has become a concern with the application of global structural analysis in fire safety engineering. In consequence, the present project is aimed to get firstly, through detailed experimental and numerical...

The aim of this project is to develop uniform European design rules for protected and unprotected cellular beams (CB) constructed of rolled sections subjected to fire. The use of cellular beams (CB) will be increased by minimising and optimising the cost of fire protection and by allowing a...