1st Edition
Behaviour and Design of Steel and Composite Connections in Fire
1. Introduction.
2. Structural analysis of connections in fire.
3. Connection temperatures in fire.
4. Connection components and their force-displacement relations.
5. Application of the component based method for beam-column connection design in fire.
6. Hollow section connections.
7. Methods of improving connection performance.
Appendix A. Thermal and mechanical properties of different types of steel at elevated temperatures.
Appendix B. Examples of Checking for shear and bending of connections.
Biography
Mostafa Jafarian is a Senior Certification Engineer at Warringtonfire, UK, specialising in structural fire protection. He is a member of British Standards Institution’s B/525/0-/32 Eurocodes structural fire design co-ordination panel, and the Association of Specialist Fire Protection task groups for reactive and non-reactive fire protection.
Professor Yong Wang is Professor of Structural and Fire Engineering at the University of Manchester, winner of the 2011 Henry Adam prize of The Institution of Structural Engineers, the UK member of three Eurocode project teams responsible for revision of Eurocode 3 Part 1.2 and Eurocode 4 Part 1.2, and author of Steel and Composite Structures-Analysis and Design for Fire Safety and co-author of Performance Based Fire Engineering of Structures.
