Towards a consistent safety format of steel beam-columns: application of the ne...

• Author(s): Vila Real, P.M.M. ; Lopes, N. ; Silva, L.S. ; Piloto, P.A.G. ; Franssen, J.-Marc
• Date: 2003
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10198/2111
• Origin: Biblioteca Digital do IPB
• Subject(s): Beam-column; Buckling; Lateral-torsional-buckling; Fire; Eurocode 3; Numerical modelling
• Document Type: Article
• Language: English

Description

Two new formulae for the design of beam-columns at room temperature have been proposed into Eurocode 3, prEN 1993-1-1 (2002), and are the result of great efforts made by two working groups that followed different approaches, a French-Belgian team and an Austrian-German one. Under fire conditions the prEN 1993-1-2 (structural fire design) presents formulae, for the design of beam-columns based on the prENV 1993-1-1 (1992). In order to study the possibility of having, in part 1-1 and part 1-2 of the Eurocode 3, the same approach, a numerical research was made using the finite element program SAFIR, developed at the University of Liege for the study of structures subjected to fire.