Post-earthquake fire resistance of steel buildings

Steel Building Assessment in Post-Earthquake Fire Environments with Fiber Optical Sensors

Evaluation of the Effective Factors on Increasing the Risk of Damages to Urban Buildings in Post-earthquake Fire Crisis by AHP Method

Background and Objectives: Earthquake can be the source of many secondary disasters. Fire is one of the most important secondary hazards after the earthquake. In some cases, post-earthquake fires, in urban areas, may cause far more severe damages than the earthquake itself. After the earthquake, the risk of fire is greatly increased due to the existence of sources of fire, such as arteries of g...

The Effect of Local Damage on Energy Absorption of Steel Frame Buildings During Earthquake

Progressive collapse is a kind of failure in which whole or large part of a structure collapse when a local damage occurs and distributes to other parts. Many researchers focus on the column removal analysis and study of the structure behavior under effect of gravity loads, so these investigations are mostly carried out on the tall building. Earthquake inspections indicate structural element ca...

Computation of Structural Fire Resistance of Steel Sections

The main object of this study is to compute the structural fire resistance for several steel members under different loading conditions. This is done in chapter 4 using two advanced calculation models. Chapter 1 contains prescriptions according to European codes, needed for this research. In Chapter 2 the notion of structural fire resistance is explained and also information about the types of ...

Sensitivity of the Earthquake Response of Tall Steel Moment Frame Buildings to Ground Motion Features

The seismic response of two tall steel moment frame buildings and their variants is explored through parametric nonlinear analysis using idealized sawtooth-like ground velocity waveforms, with a characteristic period (T ), amplitude (peak ground velocity, PGV ), and duration (number of cycles, N ). Collapse-level response is induced only by long-period, moderate to large PGV ground excitation. ...