%0 Journal Article %T Eurocode structural fire design and its application for composite circular hollow section columns %A Ribeiro %A Jos¨¦ Carlos L. %A Fakury %A Ricardo H. %A de Las Casas %A Estevam B. %J Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering %D 2008 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S1678-58782008000100006 %X the tabular structural fire design method for centrally loaded composite columns consisting of concrete filled steel circular hollow sections proposed in en 1994-1-2:2005 (eurocode 4: design of composite steel and concrete structures - structural fire design) is described here. a design procedure is then discussed, based on the determination of the temperature distribution in the cross sectional area and along the column length. a finite element based computer program is developed to implement the three-dimensional thermal analysis of different materials and geometries for given time versus temperature fire data. an example problem is shown, comparing the tabular method proposed in en 1994-1-2:2005 and the method presented in this work. %K composite structures %K concrete filled steel circular hollow columns %K three-dimensional thermal analysis %K finite element analysis %K structural fire design. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S1678-58782008000100006&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en