Fire Experiments
tall buildings, long-span bridges, large-scale structures, reliability and risk assessment, progressive collapse, fire, elevated temperatures
The overall research goal is to investigate the damage of a fire hazard in large-scale structures such as tall buildings and long-span bridges. A complete or disproportional collapse of a tall building or long-span bridge in a populated city can cause detrimental damage to the inhabitants and may disrupt the normal like and hurt the economy. Large-scale structures should be designed to have passive fire protection measures such that they can sustain fire for a prolonged time. Usually, these passive fire protection measures are the design of load-bearing mechanisms to be inherently resilient to geometric changes due to thermal expansion and fire-induced forces. The structure needs to have alternative load-paths in case of a local failure or collapse. The research will focus on the fire performance of large-structures due to various fire scenarios such as fire location, fire intensity, fire duration and fire spread. Sophisticated stochastic tools will be utilized to run simulations with these parametric and a complete risk assessment profile will be prepared.
Selamet S, Akbas E(2015). Reliability risk assessment of high-rise buildings in case of fire. 2nd International Conference on Performance-based and Lice-cycle Structural Engineering (PLSE), Brisbane, Australia. [Download]
Selamet S (2013). The impact of fire scenario to the collapse of a tall structure. SEMC Fifth International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation, Cape Town, South Africa. [Download]
Kilic SA, Selamet S (2013). Symmetric and asymmetric collapse mechanisms of a multi-story steel structure subjected to gravity and fire. ASCE Structures Congress: Bridging your passion with your profession, Pittsburgh, PA. [Download]