Temperature field of composite steel and concrete slabs in fire situation

Abstract

Composite steel decking concrete slabs are an important structural member in building construction. Research on its thermal behavior should be developed to understand its fire performance. In this paper, a comparison of the temperature distribution in the cross-section of steel decking concrete slabs subjected to fire is made through three different procedures: (a) standardized analytical, (b) experimental and (c) numerical. The analytical method was the one proposed in NBR 14323 standard. The experimental tests corresponding to eight real-scale fire tests on composite slabs carried out by the authors. The numerical tests were done for the same configurations of the experimental tests and used the FEA software Abaqus. Steel decking temperatures obtained with NBR 14323 methodologies showed good convergence with the experimental and numerical ones. The same was not observed for the concrete, positive and negative rebar.