Analytic Study of Structural Stability at High Temperature of Structural Beam Made of SM 400
A fire occurred in the steel framed building could be yielded an unexpected disasters including loss of human lives and damages of properties. Therefore, to evade the tragedies from the building, fire resistance performance of structural elements is required and specified into each nation’s building regulation. Especially, the structural beam plays a key role to transfer the load applied on the floor to column. In this study, to estimate the fire resistance performance of structural beam made of SM 400, analysis using not only mechanical, thermal properties at high temperature of the SM 400 but theories of heat transfer and thermal stress were conducted. The result of this study showed that as the lengths of beam are increased, the structural stability become getting worse. Therefore, it is not recommended to use the same thickness of fire protective materials derived from prototype’s length, 4100 mm to longer beam.