Tubular Structures XVI contains the latest scientific and engineering developments in the field of tubular steel structures, as presented at the 16th International Symposium on Tubular Structures (ISTS16, Melbourne, Australia, 4-6 December 2017). The International Symposium on Tubular Structures (ISTS) has a long-standing reputation for being the principal showcase for manufactured tubing and the prime international forum for presentation and discussion of research, developments and applications in this field. Various key and emerging subjects in the field of hollow structural sections are covered, such as: special applications and case studies, static and fatigue behaviour of connections/joints, concrete-filled and composite tubular members and offshore structures, earthquake and dynamic resistance, specification and standard developments, material properties and section forming, stainless and high-strength steel structures, fire, impact and blast response. Research and development issues presented in this topical book are applicable to buildings, bridges, offshore structures, cranes, trusses and towers. Tubular Structures XVI is thus a pertinent reference source for architects, civil and mechanical engineers, designers, steel fabricators and contractors, manufacturers of hollow sections or related construction products, trade associations involved with tubing, owners or developers of tubular structures, steel specification committees, academics and research students all around the world.

The behaviour of structures at elevated temperatures is profoundly different from that at ambient state. Local buckling of beam flange outstands and local buckling of beam web, which experiences a non-uniform temperature variation, are important because the mechanical properties of the steel are degraded non-uniformly from their ambient values. Developing a formulation representing the mechanics of the potential failure zone in the column web in the compression region of the connection due to the large compressive forces developed during fire, predicting the critical temperature in a connection that causes failure of the bolts, end plate and column flange in the tension zone of the connection and elastic analysis of a panel zone in a rigid or semi-rigid joint in a steel frame, are presented in this book. In order to model the structural response of a composite beam restrained by cooler members a partial interaction analysis is developed. The generic techniques that are developed in this book provide a structural model for the response of beams and beam-to-column connections in fire and can be especially useful to professionals in Structural and Fire Engineering fields.