Publication:

Conceptos básicos y principales metodologías del diseño estructural para condiciones de incendio según normas internacionales, aplicadas al Reglamento Colombiano de Construcciones Sismorresistentes (NSR-10)

In view of the great importance that the construction of civil works has taken for the Colombian economy, becoming as one of its main engines of development and then of the great events and tragedies by earthquake disasters at the global level, Colombian regulations governing the structural design were modified and updated from the Colombian Standards of Design and Construction of Earthquake Resistance - NSR98 (in force since the year of 1998 until 2010), to Colombian regulations of Earthquake Resistant Constructions NSR-10, effective since July 2010. This update and change of norms, applied as a law of the Republic, has brought important content and practical changes in the design and construction of civil works in the national territory, especially in buildings.Among the main changes brought about by the implementation of the new regulation (NSR10) was the increase in the structural safety that should provide the buildings and which should be planned from the very beginning of both architectural and structural designs to be then applied in the construction of the same. The most notable changes brought by the implementation of the new regulation NSR10, were reflected in the titles F (metal structures) and J (fire protection requirements in buildings), in relation to the structural design for fire conditions, issue addressed especially for steel structures (given their vulnerability to this action). In the practice of structural design in Colombia, this design is novel, because its purpose basically lies on the fact that structures cannot cause human lives to be lost by collapsing as a result of fires.