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Jean-Marc Franssen

Jean-Marc Franssen

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
43
Citations
6802
World Ranking
6223
National Ranking
78

Overview

Jean-Marc Franssen is affiliated with the University of Liège in Belgium. Their work primarily spans the field of Engineering, with a focus on Civil and Structural Engineering, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Building and Construction, Ocean Engineering, and Aerospace Engineering.

The researcher has contributed extensively to studies on fire effects on concrete materials, fire dynamics and safety research, structural response to dynamic loads, evacuation and crowd dynamics, structural behavior of reinforced concrete, combustion and detonation processes, and fire effects on ecosystems.

Frequent publication venues for their work include:

  • Fire Safety Journal
  • Applied Sciences
  • Fire Technology
  • Experimental Techniques
  • Fire and Materials

Frequent collaborators in their research include Thomas Gernay, Patrick Bamonte, Fabienne Robert, Marion Charlier, and Negar Elhami Khorasani.

Significant recent papers authored or co-authored by Jean-Marc Franssen are:

  • Experimental investigation of structural failure during the cooling phase of a fire: Timber columns, 2022, Fire and Materials
  • Experimental investigation of structural failure during the cooling phase of a fire: Concrete columns, 2022, Fire Safety Journal
  • Propagation tests with uniformly distributed cellulosic fire load, 2020, Fire Safety Journal
  • Development of an Analytical Model to Determine the Heat Fluxes to a Structural Element Due to a Travelling Fire, 2021, Applied Sciences
  • The introduction and the influence of semi-rigid connections in framed structures subjected to fire, 2020, Fire Safety Journal

In addition to journal publications, Jean-Marc Franssen has contributed to book literature, including the publication of one book titled fib Bulletin 108. Performance-based fire design of concrete structures by the International Federation for Structural Concrete in 2023.

Best Publications

  • SAFIR. A thermal/structural program modelling structures under fire

    Jean-Marc Franssen

  • Modeling structures in fire with SAFIR®: Theoretical background and capabilities

    Jean-Marc Franssen;Thomas Gernay

  • Numerical modelling of two-way reinforced concrete slabs in fire

    Linus Lim;Andrew Buchanan;Peter Moss;Jean-Marc Franssen

  • A formulation of the Eurocode 2 concrete model at elevated temperature that includes an explicit term for transient creep

    Thomas Gernay;Jean-Marc Franssen

  • Fire design of steel structures : Eurocode 1 : actions on structures, part 1-2 : General actions - Actions on structures exposed to fire - Eurocode 3 : design of steel structures, part 1-2 : General rules - Structural fire design

    Jean-Marc Franssen;Paulo Vila Real

  • Fire Design of Steel Structures: Eurocode 1: Actions on structures Part 1-2 - General actions - Actions on structures exposed to fire Eurocode 3: Design of steel structures Part 1-2 -

    Jean-Marc Franssen;Paulo Vila Real

  • Failure temperature of a system comprising a restrained column submitted to fire

    Jean-Marc Franssen

  • A multiaxial constitutive model for concrete in the fire situation: Theoretical formulation

    Thomas Gernay;Alain Millard;Jean-Marc Franssen

  • A tool to design steel elements submitted to compartment fires—OZone V2. Part 1: pre- and post-flashover compartment fire model

    Jean-François Cadorin;Jean-Marc Franssen

  • STABILITY OF STEEL COLUMNS IN CASE OF FIRE: EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION

    Jean-Marc Franssen;didier Talamona;Joël Kruppa;Louis-Guy Cajot

  • Experimental research on the determination of the main parameters affecting the behaviour of reinforced concrete columns under fire conditions.

    Jean-Claude Dotreppe;Jean-Marc Franssen;Alois Bruls;Raymond Baus

  • User’s manual for SAFIR 2016c A computer program for analysis of structures subjected to fire

    Jean-Marc Franssen;Thomas Gernay

  • Recommendation of RILEM TC 200-HTC: Mechanical concrete properties at high temperatures-modelling and applications : Part I. General presentation

    Ulrich Schneider;Roberto Felicetti;Gérard Debicki;Jean-Marc Franssen

  • Fire Tests and Calculation Methods for Circular Concrete Columns

    Jean-Marc Franssen;Jean-Claude Dotreppe

  • Stability of Steel Columns in Case of Fire: Numerical Modeling

    didier Talamona;Jean-Marc Franssen;Jean-Baptiste Schleich;Joël Kruppa

  • A simple model for the fire resistance of axially-loaded members according to eurocode 3

    Jean-Marc Franssen;Jean-Baptiste Schleich;Louis-Guy Cajot

  • Designing Steel Structures for Fire Safety

    Jean Marc Franssen;Venkatesh Kodur;Raul Zaharia

  • A new proposal of a simple model for the lateral-torsional buckling of unrestrained steel I-beams in case of fire: Experimental and numerical validation

    P.M.M Vila Real;P.A.G Piloto;J.-M Franssen

  • Calculation Method for Design of Reinforced Concrete Columns under Fire Conditions

    Jean-Claude Dotreppe;Jean-Marc Franssen;Yves Vanderzeypen

  • SAFIR: A Thermal and Structural Program for Modeling Structures Under Fire

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  • Fire design of steel structures

    Jean-Marc Franssen;Paulo Vila Real

Frequent Co-Authors

Venkatesh Kodur
Venkatesh Kodur Michigan State University
Colin Bailey
Colin Bailey Queen Mary University of London
Oreste S. Bursi
Oreste S. Bursi University of Trento
Ian Burgess
Ian Burgess University of Sheffield
Yong Wang
Yong Wang Washington State University
Frédéric Nguyen
Frédéric Nguyen University of Liège
Joško Ožbolt
Joško Ožbolt University of Stuttgart
Colomba Di Blasi
Colomba Di Blasi University of Naples Federico II
Anne Habraken
Anne Habraken University of Liège

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