“…In this regard, the original Advanced Analysis Concept (e.g., Chen et al, 1996) has been extended to study the global performance of steel framed structures subjected to compartment fires (Liew et al, 1998(Liew et al, , 2002. Conversely, while a significant influence of connections on the behavior of framed buildings have been observed in real fires (Al-Jabri et al, 2005), and recently experimental programme (Yang et al, 2009, Daryan andYahyai, 2009), the performed numerical simulation of the join region -already complex at room temperature -becomes further complicated under fire (Simões et al, 2001;Wang et al, 2008;Mao et al, 2010;Chung et al, 2010). This paper is addressed to the development of an inelastic hingebased numerical tool, denoted as SAAFE Program (System for Advanced Analysis for Fire Engineering), able to perform material and geometric non-linearity analysis of 2D semi-rigid steel-concrete composite framed structures under fire conditions.…”