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Structural steel fire design through advanced analysis with strain limits
This project will establish an advanced nonlinear finite element analysis based structural steel design method. Various frame typologies and fire scenarios will be taken into consideration. Frames with fully-rigid, semi-rigid and pinned connections will be investigated, adoption different methodologies to model connection response at elevated temperatures. Steel frames subjected to various fire scenarios will be considered.
Primary supervisor: Dr Merih Kucukler - Email: Merih.Kucukler@warwick.ac.uk
Project detail:
In this PhD project, a comprehensive investigation into the behaviour and design of steel structures in fire will be performed. Advanced computational techniques will be utilised to understand and simulate the structural response of steel structures at elevated temperatures. A novel structural steel fire design approach by advanced inelastic analysis with strain limits will be established. Owing to their computational efficiency, beam finite elements will be employed in the implementation of the proposed structural steel fire design approach by advanced inelastic analysis with strain limits. Extensive numerical parametric studies will be performed to assess the structural response of steel structures in fire by means of the finite element analysis software ABAQUS. Using the results from the extensive numerical parametric studies, the accuracy and reliability of the proposed structural steel fire design approach will be demonstrated. The proposed structural steel fire design approach will also be compared against the existing structural steel fire design methods of the British and European structural steel fire design BS EN 1993-1-2 in terms of accuracy and reliability.
It is anticipated that the PhD project will make an important contribution to the current understanding of the behaviour of steel structures at elevated temperatures, establishing a novel structural steel fire design approach able to effectively use current advanced computational tools available to the structural engineering profession.
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