FIRE DESIGN OF STEEL MEMBERS - Civil and Natural Resources ...
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5.4 RESULTS FOR FOUR SIDED EXPOSURE WITH BOX PROTECTION:...................................99<br />
5.4.1 Steel Beams with Box Protection:......................................................................100<br />
5.5 RESULTS FOR FOUR SIDED EXPOSURE WITH THICK PROTECTION: ..............................102<br />
5.5.1 Results from a Simulation in the SAFIR programme: .......................................103<br />
5.5.2 Comparison with the ECCS equation:...............................................................104<br />
5.6 RESULTS FOR THREE SIDED EXPOSURE WITH HEAVY PROTECTION:...........................106<br />
5.6.1 Results from a Simulation with the SAFIR Programme: ...................................107<br />
5.6.2 Heavily Protected Beams with Three Sided Exposure: .....................................109<br />
5.6.3 Comparison with the ECCS Formula:...............................................................111<br />
5.7 COMPARISONS WITH <strong>FIRE</strong>CALC:.................................................................................113<br />
5.7.1 Heavily Protected Beam with Three Sided Exposure:.......................................113<br />
5.8 CONCLUSIONS: ...........................................................................................................115<br />
6 COMPARISON <strong>OF</strong> METHODS USING OTHER <strong>FIRE</strong> CURVES: ......................117<br />
6.1 INTRODUCTION:..........................................................................................................117<br />
6.2 EUROCODE PARAMETRIC <strong>FIRE</strong>S: ................................................................................117<br />
6.2.1 Introduction:......................................................................................................117<br />
6.2.2 Assumptions:......................................................................................................118<br />
6.2.3 Results for unprotected steel exposed to the Eurocode Parametric fire: ..........118<br />
6.2.4 Results for protected steel: ................................................................................121<br />
6.3 REAL <strong>FIRE</strong>S:................................................................................................................123<br />
6.3.1 Unprotected Steel: .............................................................................................124<br />
6.3.2 Protected Steel:..................................................................................................126<br />
7 ADDITIONAL MATERIAL IN EUROCODE 3:......................................................129<br />
7.1 INTRODUCTION:..........................................................................................................129<br />
7.2 ANALYSIS <strong>OF</strong> THE EUROCODE:...................................................................................130<br />
7.2.1 Design Methods for Performance Requirements: .............................................130<br />
7.2.2 Structural fire Design:.......................................................................................132<br />
7.2.3 Thermal Analysis of Steel Members: .................................................................136<br />
7.2.4 Mechanical Properties: .....................................................................................137<br />
7.2.5 Thermal Properties: ..........................................................................................138<br />
7.2.6 External Steelwork: ...........................................................................................139<br />
8 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: ....................................................143<br />
8.1 UNPROTECTED <strong>STEEL</strong> <strong>MEMBERS</strong>: ..............................................................................143<br />
8.2 PROTECTED <strong>STEEL</strong> <strong>MEMBERS</strong>: ...................................................................................143<br />
8.3 CHANGES TO NZS 3404: ............................................................................................144<br />
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