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Chapter1.Introduction
application.HoweVer9thisresearchisratherbasedonideasthatalreadyeXistin-
steadofdeVelopingnewapproaches.Hence9someoftheproblemsremainedun-
solVed.FirstistheincompatibilitybetweengeometricalobjectsintheCFDmod-
elsandFEMmodelsreVealedinpracticalcases.Secondistheinconsistencyin
modellingapproaches.WhenthecompleXframedstructuresaremechanicallyan-
alysed(usingbeamfiniteelements)9thetemperaturefieldintheirmembersiscal-
culatedinasimplifiedmanner9hencetherealdistributionofthetemperaturein
members’cross-sectionsisnottakenintoaccount.Ontheotherhand9whenthe
full2Danalysisoftheheattransferinsidethemembers’cross-sectionismade9the
structuralsystemsaremodelledusingshellorbrickfiniteelements9sostructures
oflimitedsizecanbeconsidered.Finally9theeXistedintegratedapproachesfor
coupledCFD-FEManalysesdonottakeintoaccountthenecessityofdetermina-
tionoffirescenarios9whichiscrucial9especiallyincasesoflocalisedfire.
StudiesofaboVereferencesmakesitpossibletorecognisesomedemandsin
ascientificfield.ThegapisVisibleinthedeVelopmentoftheframeworkforper-
formance-basedfireengineeringdesignofstructures.Itiscausedmainlybythe
lackofacomprehensiVe9buteffectiVeapproachforanalysisofstateandresponse
ofstructuresinanaturalfire9whichutilisesthecurrentpotentialbothinmodelling
offireandthestructuralresponse.
1n2nResearchobjectivesandtheconceptofthethesis
TheresearchproblemconcernsthedeVelopmentofanintegratedframework
foranalysesofstructuresinfire.Hence9theliteraturereViewdirectedtheresearch
intodeVelopmentoftheheattransfermodel.Theheattransfermodelmustmake
thecouplingbetweentheCFDfiremodelandtheFEMstructuralmodelpracti-
callyfeasible.TheheattransfermodelshouldeffectiVelypredictthetemperature
fieldinsteelsectionseXposedtonaturalfire.Itshouldtakeintoaccountthein-
compatibilitiesbetweentheCFDregularrectangulargridandrealshapesofstruc-
turalelements.Ontheotherhand9anintegratedframeworkforcoupledCFD-FEM
analysesrequiresamethodfordeterminationoffirescenarios.Themethodfor
determinationoffirescenariosshouldassistintheselectionofpositionofthefire
sourcebasedonthemechanicalpremises.Suchamethodhasnotbeenproposed
yet9soitispresentedinthisthesis.
TheaimofthisthesisistodeVelopaframeworkforperformance-basedstruc-
turalfireengineeringanalysesofaphysicalsystem9tointegrateCFDsimulations
offirebehaViourandFEManalysesofstructuralresponsetonaturalfire.Hence9
itwillbepossibletodeterminetheconsequencesoffireonthestructuralsystems.
IntegrationofCFDsimulationsoffireandFEMcalculationofstructuralbehaV-
iourcontributestotheinspectionofthefiresafetywithinthestructuralfireengi-
neeringfield.
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