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Steel and Composite Structures
  Volume 15, Number 2, August 2013 , pages 163-173
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/scs.2013.15.2.163
 


Experimental research on the creep buckling of fire-resistant steel columns at elevated temperature
Kuo-Chen Yang and Zong-Han Yu

 
Abstract
    The thermal creep is one of the major factors causing the buckle of steel columns in the fire events. But, few related studies have been reported to evaluate the factors affecting the thermal creep of steel column experimentally or numerically. In this study a series of Fire-resistant steel columns with three different slenderness ratios under a sustained load are tested under a uniform temperature up to six hours in order to evaluate the creep upon three selected factors, temperature, applied load, and column slenderness. Based on experimental results, a proposed creep strain rate model is established as the function of a single parameter of the load ratio of temperature LR(T) to determine the buckling time of steel column due to creep. Furthermore it is found that the creep can be neglected when LR(T) is smaller than 0.77.
 
Key Words
    thermal creep; load ratio; elevated temperature; steel columns
 
Address
Kuo-Chen Yang and Zong-Han Yu: National Kaohsiung First University of Science and Technology, Department of Construction Engineering, Kaohsiung, 824, Taiwan.
 

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