Eurocode structural fire design and its application for composite circular hollow section columns

In-plane compression of hollow composite pyramidal lattice sandwich columns

Journal of Composite Materials, Volume 48, May 2014, Pages 1337-1346 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0021998313485309 In-plane compression of hollow composite pyramidal lattice sandwich columns Sha Yin, Linzhi Wu, Steven Nutt 1. Center for Composite Materials, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin, China 2. Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Southern California, ...

Yield curvature for seismic design of circular reinforced concrete columns

PARTICLE SWARM-GROUP SEARCH ALGORITHM AND ITS APPLICATION TO SPATIAL STRUCTURAL DESIGN WITH DISCRETE VARIABLES

Based on introducing two optimization algorithms, group search optimization (GSO) algorithm and particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm, a new hybrid optimization algorithm which named particle swarm-group search optimization (PS-GSO) algorithm is presented and its application to optimal structural design is analyzed. The PS-GSO is used to investigate the spatial truss structures with discr...

Structural Behaviour in Fire and Real Design

A great deal of understanding into the behaviour of composite steel-concrete structures in fire has been developed since the Cardington frame fire tests (UK) 1990s. This has now been broadened so that structures in fire design has a real engineering basis and is not reliant on results from single element testing in the standard furnace. Several projects involving office buildings in the UK and ...

Probabilistic Evaluation of Eurocode 5 Fire Design Criteria of a Timber Portal Frame

Structural reliability analysis for a three failure were identified for the frame and limit state function was formulated functions were based on the Eurocode 5 design criteria. Uncertainties in the timber material properties were generated from laboratory test results performed on five commonly used timber species in Nigeria, namely Als boonei (Ahun), Triplochiton Scleroxylon (Obeche), Termina...