Development of Fire Resilient Steel Connections using Hybrid Testing

本森钢铁是加拿大的领导者，专门从事创造和发展钢梁柱连接，以支持从业人员在结构工程。然而，最近出现的是，设计钢结构建筑物，以确保防火设计，没有足够的了解钢连接在真实的火灾的基本行为，以允许这些创新的设计。一个强大的建模和实验技术，称为混合测试，将考虑如何各种连接执行复杂的热负荷下，可以观察到在真实的火灾。本研究的目的是了解潜在的机制（火灾动力学，传热，连接固定性），有助于真实的行为的钢连接在真实的火灾。一个计算工具包将被生产用于设计和optimumconnection类型将被提出，是弹性复杂的热负荷配置中看到的真实火灾。与整个项目同时，所有研究团队成员将使用计算工具包为建筑设计示例做出贡献。反过来，这将有助于发展本森钢铁公司及其提供替代材料解决方案和弹性技术的能力。

Benson Steel is a Canadian leader that specializes in the creation and development of steel beam to columnconnections in support of practitioners in structural engineering. However it has recently emerged, that with adesire to design steel buildings to ensure fire resilient design that not enough is understood about steelconnections underlying behaviour in real fires to permit these innovative designs. A robust modelling andexperimental technique, called hybrid testing, will consider how various connections perform undercomplicated thermal loading that can be observed in real fires. This research aims to understand the underlyingmechanisms (fire dynamics, heat transfer, connection fixity) that contribute to the real behaviour of steelconnections in real fires. A computational tool-kit will be produced for use in design and an optimumconnection type will be proposed that is resilient to complicated thermal loading configurations as seen in realfires. Concurrent with the full project, all research team members will contribute to building design examplesusing the computational tool kit. This, in turn, will help to develop Benson Steel and their ability to deliveralternative material solutions and resilient technologies.