LOCAFI +
Temperature Assessment of a Vertical Member Subjected to LOCAlised Fire – Dissemination
International project:
Acronym: LOCAFI +
Programme: Research Fund for Coal and Steel (RFCS)
Contract No.: 754072
Project implementation period of time: 01.07.2017 – 31.12.2018
Total value of the project: EUR 813 701,55
ITB’s budget: EUR 29 825,55
Coordinator on behalf of ITB: Andrzej Borowy, PhD and Grzegorz Woźniak, PhD
Leader/Coordinating organisation: ARCELORMITTAL BELVAL & DIFFERDANGE SA, Luxembourg
Participants:
CENTRE TECHNIQUE INDUSTRIEL DE LA CONSTRUCTION, France
UNIVERSITATEA POLITEHNICA TIMISOARA, Romania
UNIVERSITE DE LIEGE, Belgium
UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER, United Kingdom
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI TRENTO, Italy
CESKE VYSOKE UCENI TECHNICKE V PRAZE, Czech Republic
STICHTING BOUWEN MET STAAL, Holland
UNIVERSIDADE DE AVEIRO, Portugal
BAUFORUMSTAHL EV, Germany
TALLINNA TEHNIKAULIKOOL, Estonia
UNIVERZA V LJUBLJANI, Slovenia
INSTYTUT TECHNIKI BUDOWLANEJ, Poland
UNIVERSITAT POLITECNICA DE VALENCIA, Spain
TECHNICKA UNIVERZITA V KOSICIACH, Slovakia
STAALINFOCENTRUM – INFOSTEEL, Belgium
MISKOLCI EGYETEM, Hungary
TTY-SAATIO, Finland
THE STEEL CONSTRUCTION INSTITUTE LBG, United Kingdom
RISE RESEARCH INSTITUTES OF SWEDEN AB, Sweden
Short description:
LOCAFIplus was a project disseminating the results of the LOCAFI project, the main goal of which was to provide designers with a scientific basis for designing steel columns exposed to the impact of local fires (such as may occur, for example, in car parks).
The aim of the project was to prepare a design guide and adapt to the Polish market a software tool for calculating the temperature distribution in vertical steel elements exposed to local fire.
The result of the project was the dissemination of the fire design methodology for columns exposed to local fire among practicing engineers in European countries (using the results obtained in the LOCAFI project). Transfer of the developed calculation methods into practice was achieved through national seminars and clear design guides. As part of the project, the following were prepared in Polish: a design guide and the adaptation for the Polish market of a software tool (OZone) for calculating the temperature distribution in vertical steel elements exposed to the impact of a local fire.
