Creep-free fire analysis of steel structures with Eurocode 3 material model

What is it about?

The paper proposes a simple method for conducting structural fire analysis without the influence of implicit creep component which is inherent to Eurocode 3 material model.

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Why is it important?

Creep free analysis is important when using Eurocode 3 material model because the implicit creep component produces erroneous results if one uses the mentioned model in structural fire analysis. This gets worse if combining an explicit creep model with the original Eurocode 3 material model.