Fernando Mondaca Fellenberg
Fire Resistance of Reinforced Concrete Filled Rectangular Hollow Sections.
Rel. Alessandro Pasquale Fantilli. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Civil Engineering, 2023
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Abstract
Composite structural elements are widely used due to their efficient use of each material's strength, enabling each of them to work in the most favorable conditions. In the case of steel-concrete composite structures, this means allowing concrete to work mostly in compression while it is steel that carries the tension stresses. More specifically, when talking about columns composed of steel tubes filled with reinforced concrete, these kinds of sections present a wide array of advantages born out of their composite behavior, such as reduced cross sections requirements (and more available space for architectural design), fire resistance provided by concrete (as opposed to steel profile alone), reduced construction time and no need for formwork, controlled and reduced creep and shrinkage, among many others.
However, despite all the advantages provided by these columns, their behavior in case of an accidental fire situation is not easy to simulate and often requires complex software analysis
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