Use DIANA to help you meet Design Codes and Standards, while optimizing your structural design.
Structural fires often result in the loss of serviceability and inherent financial loss, but more importantly, they pose a risk to life. As a structural or geotechnical engineer, you are responsible for certifying a structure’s safety, providing sufficient means of escape and time to evacuate. Building codes and standards provide engineers with rules and recommendations, but they do not always lead to optimal designs or apply to all types of structures. Numerical analysis becomes indispensable, allowing engineers to assess and enhance the durability and resistance of structures under fire.
DIANA offers you all the necessary functionality to assess your structure’s behavior under fire in a single analysis – or in combination with other events such as earthquakes.
During fire, thermal strains develop within the structure, these add to the strains from mechanical loading, shrinkage and creep. Materials also undergo thermal degradation of their mechanical properties, this may result in damage to the structure: cracking in the concrete and plastification in steel.
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