• 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 ...