Robustness of car parks against localised fire - Deliverable V: Practical behavioural models for car park structures towards design practice

Report (2012)

Research Programme of the Research Fund for Coal and Steel - Steel RTD Project carried out with a financial grant of the Research Programme of the Research Fund for Coal and Steel - Grant Agreement Number ... [more ▼]

Research Programme of the Research Fund for Coal and Steel - Steel RTD Project carried out with a financial grant of the Research Programme of the Research Fund for Coal and Steel - Grant Agreement Number RFSR‐CT‐2008‐00036 [less ▲]

Robustness of car parks against localised fire - Deliverable VI: Development of design recommendations, critical appraisal and application to a study case

Report (2012)

Grant Agreement Number RFSR‐CT‐2008‐00036

3D simulation of Industrial Hall in case of fire. Benchmark between ABAQUS, ANSYS and SAFIR

in Interflam2004 Proceedings. Fire Sciences and Engineering Conference (2004, July)

For simple storey buildings, the structural behaviour in case of fire is relevant only for the safety of the firemen. The protection of occupants and goods is a matter of fire spread, smoke propagation ... [more ▼]

For simple storey buildings, the structural behaviour in case of fire is relevant only for the safety of the firemen. The protection of occupants and goods is a matter of fire spread, smoke propagation, active fire fighting measures and evacuation facilities. Brittle failure, progressive collapse and partial failure of façades elements outwards may endanger the fire fighters and have to be avoided. In order to deal with such an objective, the simulation softwares has to cover the 3D structural behaviour including membrane and restrained effects as well as the failure mode so that post-local failure stage can be analysed. Such calculation models (ANSYS, ABAQUS and SAFIR [1]) have been compared true a benchmark. In this benchmark, two different users used ABAQUS. [less ▲]

Dynamic approach of structural fire calculation with FEM software

in Proc. 5th International Conference on Performance-Based Codes and Fire Safety Design Methods (2004)

This paper explains how the dynamic approach has been implemented in the computer software SAFIR in order to cope with temporary and local failures that occured in a step be step static analysis of ... [more ▼]

This paper explains how the dynamic approach has been implemented in the computer software SAFIR in order to cope with temporary and local failures that occured in a step be step static analysis of structures subjected to fire.By means of this recently implemented dynamic algorithm, it’s now possible to simulate the complete failure mechanism, to predict the influence of a local failure on the global behaviour of the structure and to follow eventually the progressive collapse. Therefore the resistance time is now really determined whereas in the past many numerical failure corresponding to local failure were interpreted as resistance time of the whole structure. [less ▲]