Post-Earthquake Fire Simulations: Videos of The Analyses

<p>This project focuses on the post-earthquake fire analysis and fire resistant design of steel buildings with moment-resisting-frames (MRFs). Steel building structures are designed with special MRFs to resist earthquake loads in high seismic zones. The post-earthquake fire behavior of these structures is analyzed by: (i) first subjecting to seismic ground motion records scaled appropriately to represent design-basis and maximum-considered earthquakes, and (ii) then subjecting the earthquake damaged building to realistic compartment fire scenarios of different durations and intensities. The structures are modeled and analyzed in 3D using ABAQUS, while accounting for various sources of material and geometric nonlinearity and potential damage modes.</p>

<p>Please note that the type of all the video files is Quicktime (.mov), and they can be opened using different media players such as, VLC, PowerDVD, and Adobe Flash Player.</p>