Testing of stainless steel I-section columns in fire

Although there have been significant developments in the testing, simulation and design of stainless steel structural elements at room temperature, response members fire has received significantly less attention. In particular, full-scale tests on I-section members, which are becoming increasingly widely used engineering applications to meet growing load-carrying capacity demands, currently scarce. this paper, results eight anisothermal grade 1.4301 laser-welded austenitic columns reported. Complementary initial local global geometric imperfection measurements, temperature tensile coupon column buckling also described. On basis findings from experiments, accuracy safety European standard EN 1993-1-2 recent recommendations Kucukler et al. [1] for fire, will be incorporated into upcoming version 1993-1-2, assessed. It is observed that, relative existing rules method provides more reliable ultimate strength predictions fire.