Fire resistance of long span cellular beam made of rolled profiles (FICEB)
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 wider use of unprotected CB. This will greatly benefit long span construction, and increase the market share of steel. These results will be achieved based on the development of a new design code of single CB subjected to fire as well as an extended methodology considering the whole floor structure and the beneficial effects of the adjacent members. The reliability of the developed tools will be based on large-scale tests in order to provide a cost-effective design methodology. A set of practical design recommendations will be developed in order to satisfy all the requirements of fire-safe engineering
Fire safety of Industrial Halls
Valorisation project
In the scope of this project, it is clearly demonstrated that steel structure, if designed appropriately, fulfils the safety requirements in case of fire which will be given in terms of "non-progressive collapse" and "non dangerous failure type". On the basis of a series of parametric studies, several simple design rules as well as some key construction details are proposed in order to help all engineers to design safe steel structures for single storey industrial buildings.
The design guides:
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are accompanied by software LUCA available in the Download Center.
Development of design rules for the behavior of external steel structures
The aims of the present research are to improve and to extend the existing physical models, in order to calculate temperature development within various types of structural elements, by including transient state effects. The verification of the current Eurocode models has been performed on the basis of experimental and numerical results.
Fire Safety of Industrial Halls and Low-rise Buildings:
Realistic Fire Design, Active Safety Measures, Post-local failure simulation and Performance Based Requirements”
The primary aim of this research was to prove that the fire safety of steel single-storey buildings is sufficient, in the absence of passive fire protection, by means of risk assessment and structural simulations showing that the safety of people and firemen is ensured. The safety of firemen is guaranteed by a safe failure mode and non-progressive collapse behaviour of the structure. This methodology was also extended to low level multi-storey structures (two to four storeys).
Natural Fire safety concept
The development and validation of a CFD-based engineering methodology for evaluating thermal action on steel and composite structures
A CFD-based engineering methodology has been developed for determining the thermal behaviour of structural elements in steel/composite-framed buildings subjected to natural fires.
Dissemination of Fire Safety Engineering Knowledge
Calculation rules of lightweight steel sections in fire situation
Risk-Based Fire Resistance Requirements
Natural Fire Safety Concept
Full Scale Tests, Implementation in the Eurocodes and Development of a User-friendly Design Tool
Demonstration of real fire tests in car parks and high buildings
Competitive Steel Building through Natural Fire Safety Concept
Essentials of the Final Report EUR 20360 EN, 2002.
- English version, Final Report EUR 20360 EN
- French version / C.E.C. Research 7215-PP/042
- Italian version / C.E.C. Research 7215-PP/042
- Spanish version / C.E.C. Research 7215-PP/042
- Dutch version / C.E.C. Research 7215-PP/057
- German version / C.E.C. Research 7215-PP/057