Structural behaviour in fire compartment under different heating regimes -part 2: (slab mean temperatures)

The effect of varying the thermal regime in a highly restrained composite b eam in a steel frame structure is studied using a finite element model. The variation of through depth thermal gradients in both directions of the ort hotropic slab was studied in the first part of this paper. In this part the effect of varying the mean temperature increase in the slab is investigate d using the same model of the British Steel restrained beam test. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.