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Behavior and Limit States of Long-Span Composite Floor Beams with Simple Shear Connections subject to Compartment Fires: Experimental Evaluation

March 24, 2020
Author(s)
Lisa Y. Choe, Selvarajah Ramesh, William L. Grosshandler, Matthew S. Hoehler, Mina S. Seif, John L. Gross, Matthew F. Bundy
This paper presents the results of compartment fire experiments on four 12.8 m long composite floor beams with various end support conditions. Specimens were constructed as partially- composite beams, consisting of W18x35 steel beams and 83 mm thick

Compartment Fire Experiments on Long-Span Composite-Beams with Simple Shear Connections Part 1: Experiment Design and Beam Behavior at Ambient Temperature

October 22, 2019
Author(s)
Selvarajah Ramesh, Lisa Choe, Mina S. Seif, Matthew Hoehler, William L. Grosshandler, Ana Sauca, Matthew Bundy, William E. Luecke, Yi Bao, Matthew Klegseth, Genda Chen, John Reilly, Branko Glisic
The National Institute of Standards and Technology recently expanded its large-scale structural-fire testing capabilities in the National Fire Research Laboratory. A landmark test series was conducted on long-span steel-concrete composite floor beams

FIRE PERFORMANCE OF LONG-SPAN COMPOSITE BEAMS WITH GRAVITY CONNECTIONS

June 6, 2018
Author(s)
Lisa Y. Choe, Selvarajah Ramesh, Mina S. Seif, Matthew S. Hoehler, William L. Grosshandler, John L. Gross, Matthew F. Bundy
Prescriptive fire-resistance ratings for structural components provide limited insight into the system-level performance of steel-concrete composite structures in fire. Specifically, long- span composite beam assemblies exposed to fire have vulnerabilities

HYBRID FIRE TESTING OF A SINGLE DEGREE-OF-FREEDOM LINEAR SYSTEM

June 6, 2018
Author(s)
Ana Sauca, Chao Zhang, Artur A. Chernovsky, Mina S. Seif
As the structural engineering industry transitions towards performance based design methods, a better understanding of the performance of structures as full systems, especially under extreme loading conditions like fire, becomes a must. Full scale testing

Localized fire tests on steel beams with different end restraints

November 1, 2017
Author(s)
Selvarajah Ramesh, Mina S. Seif, Lisa Choe
Two 6.2-m span I-shaped structural steel beams were tested under combined structural and open flame localized fire loads. Two different support conditions for the beam ends were considered: (i) simple support, and (ii) double-angles bolted to laterally
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