PERFORMANCE OF DIFFERENT CREEP MODELS IN THE ANALYSIS OF FIRE EXPOSED STEEL MEMBERS

Authors

  • Neno Torić
  • Rui Rui Sun
  • Ian W. Burgess

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14311/asfe.2015.049

Abstract

In order to model the impact of the creep strains on the behaviour of steel in fire, several creep models have been implemented into Vulcan research code. The paper presents verifications of these creep models for fire-exposed steel against transient fire tests of simply supported steel beams with various loading arrangements, including bending combined with axial compression. In addition, a creep-free analysis of the fire tests has been performed using a newly developed creep-free methodology. Creep-free analysis is vital in explicit modelling of steel creep in fire, since most of the available material models of steel in fire were derived from transient coupon tests and inherently included creep associated with the particular heating rates used in the tests.

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Published

2016-01-18