Structures in Fire: Focus on Steel and Composite Structures
A special issue of Fire (ISSN 2571-6255). This special issue belongs to the section "Fire Risk Assessment and Safety Management in Buildings and Urban Spaces".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 October 2023) | Viewed by 11703
Special Issue Editors
Interests: structural engineering innovation and research for extreme events including seismic, fire, impactive, and impulsive loading
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Structural fire design has emerged as a promising alternative to traditional prescriptive fire-resistant designs, particularly when the focus is on: (i) new and innovative structural members, components, or systems and (ii) new and innovative construction materials, both with particular emphasis on the resilience and sustainability of the built infrastructure. Applications include the design of tall buildings, signature structures, bridges, industrial structures, etc., where the use of fire protection materials can be optimized for economy and sustainability while achieving thermal and structural performance goals, leading to life safety and collapse prevention.
We are pleased to invite you to submit your original manuscript for review and potential publication.
This Special Issue will focus on highlighting new and innovative research methods being used to investigate the fundamental and specific behaviors of steel and steel-concrete composite members, components, and systems subjected to realistic fire scenarios. Both experimental and computational research highlighting new and innovative testing methods, numerical modeling approaches, and computational techniques will be emphasized. The validation of numerical models and approaches using experimental results and parametric studies conducted using validated models will also be a focus of this Special Issue. It will also highlight papers that present the fundamental behavior, failure modes, and limit states of steel and composite structures exposed to realistic and/or standard fire scenarios.
Thus, in summary, this Special Issue aims to showcase original research articles on Structures in Fire: Focus on Steel and Composite Structures using experimental methods, computational approaches, and performance or behavior-based design methods.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Amit H. Varma
Dr. Feng Fu
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- structural fire design
- thermal
- structural
- fire resistance
- fire protection
- buildings
- bridges
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