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Kate Anderson

PhD Project:

Effective Modelling and Design of Structural Connections in Fire

A good understanding of the global behaviour of steel-concrete structures in fire has been developed over the last ten years. This understanding is sufficient for performance based designs to now be used quite widely. However, the detailed behaviour of the connections in such structures in fire conditions has not been the subject of sufficient research. Questions about how to model connections in fire and what forces they should be designed for are now becoming more prominent and during the course of this project, primarily through detailed numerical modelling, we hope to answer some of these questions and consider how this could affect the current design process.

Project funded by EPSRC and Arup

Posters

How do Connections Affect Global Response?
Kate Anderson & Martin Gillie
6th International Conference on Structures in Fire 2010.
Michigan State University in East Lansing 2nd-4th June
2010

Previous projects

The Collapse of WTC7: a 3 Storey Finite Element Analysis. (MEng, 2005)

Selected Publications

See also our page on the Edinburgh Research Archive.


BRE Centre for Fire Safety Engineering
The School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh
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