Steel Connections Post-Earthquake Fire Tests Setup

This paper presents the setting up of a test stand, the design and construction of a furnace and the testing procedure in order to analyse the behaviour of steel beam to column end-plate bolted connections under the post-earthquake fire action. 12 real scale beam - node - column substructures were created for this goal. The main problem was how to simulate the seismic action on the specimens immediately followed by fire action. For the first part, the recommendations inside the document of ECCS - Technical Committee 1 were developed and applied for this case; for the fire action, the special furnace was designed and constructed around the connection.