• closedAccess   Ambient and fire behavior of eccentrically loaded elliptical slender concrete-filled tubular colums 

      Espinós, Ana; Romero, M. L.; Portolés Flaj, Jose Manuel; Hospitaler, Antonio Elsevier (2014-09)
      This paper presents the results of an experimental program carried out on slender elliptical hollow section columns filled with concrete. Given the reduced number of experimental results found in the literature on concrete ...
    • closedAccess   Circular concrete-filled dual steel columns with ultrahigh-strength concrete 

      Romero, M. L.; Albero, Vicente; Espinós, Ana; Hospitaler, Antonio; Pons, David; Portolés Flaj, Jose Manuel; Ibáñez Usach, Carmen Ernst und Sohn: OnlineOpen (2016)
      This paper presents the results of an experimental campaign in which the buckling resistance of 12 concrete-filled dual steel columns was ascertained. Whereas some papers in the literature describe investigations into ...
    • openAccess   Fire design method for concrete filled tubular columns based on equivalent concrete core cross-section 

      Ibáñez Usach, Carmen; Aguado, José V.; Romero, M. L.; Espinós, Ana; Hospitaler, Antonio Elsevier (2015)
      In this work, a method for a realistic cross-sectional temperature prediction and a simplified fire design method for circular concrete filled tubular columns under axial load are presented. The generalized lack of simple ...
    • openAccess   Fire design of slim‐floor beams 

      Romero, Manuel L.; Albero, Vicente; Espinós, Ana; Hospitaler, Antonio Ernst & Sohn (2019)
      Slim‐floor beams are a well‐known and cost‐effective solution that permits a significant reduction of floor thickness, and are increasingly used in industrial and commercial buildings. Since only their lower flange is ...
    • openAccess   Influence of Ultra-high Strength Concrete on Circular Concrete-filled Dual Steel Columns 

      Romero, M. L.; Ibáñez Usach, Carmen; Espinós, Ana; Portolés Flaj, Jose Manuel; Hospitaler, Antonio Elsevier (2016-07)
      This paper presents the results of an experimental program where the load-bearing capacity at room temperature of 14 slender circular concrete-filled dual steel tubular (CFDST) columns under axial load was analysed. In ...
    • openAccess   Innovative solutions for enhancing the fire resistance of slim-floor beams: Thermal experiments 

      Albero, Vicente; Serra, E.; Espinós, Ana; Romero, Manuel L.; Hospitaler, Antonio Elsevier (2019-11-14)
      Slim-floor beams have attracted the attention of designers in the last decades, owing to their ability for supporting intermediate loads without increasing the floor thickness. However, the behaviour of this type of beams ...
    • openAccess   Internally fire protected composite steel-concrete slim-floor beam 

      Albero, Vicente; Serra, E.; Espinós, Ana; Romero, M. L.; Hospitaler, Antonio Elsevier (2021-01-15)
      The slim-floor beam is a composite concrete-steel beam fully integrated into the floor depth that was developed at the beginning of the 1990s. This composite beam presents a very good behaviour during the fire event ...
    • closedAccess   Non-constant biaxial bending capacity assessment of CFST columns through interaction diagrams 

      Espinós, Ana; Albero, Vicente; Romero, M. L.; Mund, Maximilian; Meyer, Patrick; Schaumann, Peter Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (2019)
      The mechanical response of concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) columns subjected to pure compression or uniaxial bending was studied in depth over the last decades. However, the available research results on CFST columns ...
    • openAccess   Recent developments and fire design provisions for CFST columns and slim-floor beams 

      Romero, Manuel L.; Espinós, Ana; Lapuebla-Ferri, Andres; Albero, Vicente; Hospitaler, Antonio Elsevier (2020-06-02)
      This paper summarizes the latest technical and scientific progresses on steel-concrete composite structures exposed to fire, presenting the recent research carried out on this subject and the progress of the design codes. ...
    • openAccess   Simplified proposal for the temperature field of steel-reinforced CFST columns exposed to fire 

      Medall Martos, David; Espinós, Ana; Albero, Vicente; Romero, Manuel L. Elsevier (2022-10-26)
      Concrete-filled steel tubular (CFST) columns are composite sections that may contribute to reduce the environmental impact in construction through a more efficient use of resources. By embedding a steel profile inside a ...
    • openAccess   Slender double-tube ultra-high strength concrete-filled tubular columns under ambient temperature and fire 

      Romero, M. L.; Espinós, Ana; Portolés Flaj, Jose Manuel; Hospitaler, Antonio; Ibáñez Usach, Carmen Elsevier (2015)
      This paper presents the results of an experimental campaign where both the room temperature and the fire resistance of six double-tube concrete filled steel tubular slender columns with different combinations of concrete ...
    • openAccess   Ultra-high Strength Concrete on Eccentrically Loaded Slender Circular Concrete-filled Dual Steel Columns 

      Ibáñez Usach, Carmen; Romero, M. L.; Espinós, Ana; Portolés Flaj, Jose Manuel; Albero, Vicente Elsevier (2017)
      This paper presents an experimental study which was undertaken to investigate the effect of ultra-high strength concrete (UHSC) on the mechanical response of concrete-filled dual steel tubular columns (CFDST) subjected to ...