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High-temperature tensile constitutive data and models for structural steels in fire

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Author(s)

William E. Luecke, Stephen W. Banovic, Joseph D. McColskey

Abstract

This report documents the stress-strain behavior of a collection of structural steels recovered from the collapse of the World Trade Center. These steels, combined with literature data form the basis of a model for the stress-strain behavior of structural steels in general. The model accounts for the lost of strength, the decrease in work hardening and the increase in the strain-rate sensitivity with increasing temperature. For general structural steels, it takes the measured yield strength as its only input parameter. The new model predicts the stress-strain behavior of the steels slightly better than the existing Eurocode~3 stress-strain model.
Citation
Technical Note (NIST TN) - 1714
Report Number
1714

Keywords

steel, World Trade Center, tensile, strain rate, constitutive mode

Citation

Luecke, W. , Banovic, S. and McColskey, J. (2011), High-temperature tensile constitutive data and models for structural steels in fire, Technical Note (NIST TN), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.TN.1714 (Accessed March 28, 2024)
Created November 30, 2011, Updated November 10, 2018