Effects of Fire on Steel Structures

Effects of Fire on Steel Structures

How fire effect steel structural buildings and its properties

Steel is one of the materials that are used for the construction of buildings. Fire effect the Steel structure buildings in slow and poisonous manner. When steel buildings are exposed to fire, the temperature of steel increases and thus Steel undergoes expansion with the increasing temperatures that are called the coefficient of thermal expansion. Creep rate of steel also changes with the increase in the temperatures due to fire. The expansion of steel causes changes in the alignments and thus a danger of ...