ABSTRACT

Steel and Composite Structures: Behaviour and Design for Fire Safety presents a systematic and thorough description of the behaviour of steel and composite structures in fire, and shows how design methods are developed to quantify our understanding.Quantitative descriptions of fire behaviour, heat transfer in construction elements and structural an

chapter 1|8 pages

Introduction

chapter 3|57 pages

Experimental observations

chapter 4|21 pages

Numerical modelling

chapter 6|31 pages

An introduction to heat transfer

chapter 8|44 pages

Design of steel structures for fire safety