Possidente, L;
Tondini, N;
(2023)
Validation of a New Analytical Formula to Predict the Steel Temperature of Heavily Insulated Cross-Sections.
Fire Technology
10.1007/s10694-023-01511-7.
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Abstract
Fire protection is a popular solution to slow down the temperature increase in steel elements subjected to fire, and simple equations, such as the mass lumped formula proposed in EN1993-1-2, may be employed to estimate the steel temperature in the cross-section. The EN1993-1-2 formula assumes that the temperature of the exposed insulation surface and the surrounding gas are equal. This simplification may provide inaccurate results for heavily insulated steel sections. Therefore, a new mass lumped formula was derived, accounting for more accurate boundary conditions considering the heat flux impinging the insulation. On these premises, this work evaluates how the new simple formula fares with respect to the EN1993-1-2 formula. In this respect, a comprehensive comparison with the results of 1-D and 2-D analyses considering several insulation materials and thicknesses of insulation and steel is thoroughly presented. The proposal results in being always safe and better estimates steel temperatures relevant in the structural fire engineering context. Its use is particularly recommended for heavily insulated sections, where the ratio between the insulation and the steel heat capacities is higher than 14, and the EN1993-1-2 formula gives unsafe predictions.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Validation of a New Analytical Formula to Predict the Steel Temperature of Heavily Insulated Cross-Sections |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s10694-023-01511-7 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s10694-023-01511-7 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
| Keywords: | Fire protection, Steel temperature, Thermal analysis, Heat transfer, Steel structures, Fire safety engineering, Heavy insulated sections |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10182546 |
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