Fire Performance of Thin-Walled Steel Structures - Paperback

by Yong Wang (Author), Mahen Mahendran (Author), Ashkan Shahbazian (Author)

This authoritative account includes fire tests of structural members and systems, numerical modelling of heat transfer and structural behaviour, elevated temperature material properties, methods of improving fire resistance, and performance based fire resistant design methods.

Author Biography

Yong Wang is professor of structural and fire engineering at the University of Manchester, UK where he leads the Structural Resilience research group. He is author of Performance-Based Fire Engineering of Structures and Steel and Composite Structures: Behaviour and Design for Fire Safety also published by Taylor & Francis.

Ashkan Shahbazian is visiting assistant professor at Pars University, Tehran, Iran and adjunct assistant professor at the University of Coimbra, Portugal; and Head of Research and Technology at the Iranian Society of Structural Engineering.

Prof Mahen Mahendran is professor at Queensland University of Technology, Australia and has served for more than 35 years at six universities.