Fire Design of Steel Structures Second edition : Eurocode 1: Actions on structures. Part 1-2: Actions on structures exposed to fire: Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures: Part 1-2: Structural fire design

The first edition of Fire Design of Steel Structures was published by ECCS as paperback in 2010. Since 2012, this publication is also available in electronic format as an e-book. Nevertheless, the interest for this publication was so high that it appeared rapidly that the paper copies would be sold out within a short time and a second edition would have to be printed. The authors took the opportunity of this second edition to review their own manuscript. The standards that are described and commented in this book, namely EN 1991-1-2 and 1993-1-2, are still in application in the same versions as those that prevailed at the time of writing the first edition. It was nevertheless considered that an added value would be given by, first, rephrasing some sentences or sections that had generated questions by some readers but, above all, adding some new material for the benefit of completeness. The new material namely comprises: A section dealing with the thermal response of steel members under several separate simultaneous localised fires, including one worked example with multiple fire scenarios in a car park (Chapter 4); An important section on classification of cross-sections. The case of combined bending and axial force, including one worked example comparing different methodologies to obtain the position of the neutral axis, has been added (Chapter 5); A worked example of a beam-column with Class 4 cross-section (Chapter 5); A new section with comparisons between the simple and the advanced calculation models in Chapter 6 (shadow factor – including one example, buckling curves and adaptation factors κ1 and κ2); New references have been included