Structural Fire Safety Engineering
Research and Consulting

Glosey

Refereed Publications

2025

Selamet S, Orgev AA (2025). Seismic performance of chevron-braced steel buildings using FEMA P695 methodology. Turkish Journal of Civil Engineering 36/6. [Download]

Selamet S (2025). Book Chapter: Construction Materials and Their Properties for Fire Resistance and Insulation. Woodhead Publishing Series in Civil and Structural Engineering, pp. 3–17. [Download]

2023

Selamet S, Ayva B (2023). Car Fires in Multi-Story Parking Garages. Turkish Journal of Civil Engineering 34-3.
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Selamet S, Ozer AY, Ildan KB (2023). Experimental study on the fire performance of prestressed steel parallel wire strands. Engineering Structures 280, 115709. [Download]

Dundar U, Selamet S (2023). Fire load and fire growth characteristics in modern high-rise buildings. Fire Safety Journal 135, 103710. [Download]

Jodi MM, Serdar S, Wang YC (2023). City-wide fire vulnerability map of high-rise residential buildings. Fire Technology. [Download]

2022

Selamet S (2022). BOOK. Yangın Muhendisliği. Nobel Akademik Publishing. [Download]

Calayir M, Serdar S (2022). Post-earthquake fire performance of fire door sets. Fire Safety Journal 130, 103589. [Download]

2018

Selamet S, Yolacan TF (2018). Steel Frame-Concrete Slab Composite Floor Fire Resistance Experiment. Teknik Dergi 29: 2131–2145. [Download]

2017

Selamet S (2017). Thermal Gradient Estimation due to Surface Heat Exchange in Steel I-Sections. Journal of Structural Engineering 143(9). [Download]

Selamet S, Yolacan TF (2017). Composite Floor Fire Resistance (Turkish). Teknik Dergi: 8007–8022. [Download]

2016

Selamet S, Bolukbas C (2016). Fire resilience of composite floors with shear connections: Numerical investigation. Fire Safety Journal 81: 97–108. [Download]

2015

Selamet S, Bolukbas C (2015). Fire performance of single plate shear connections in composite floors. Journal of Structural Fire Engineering. [Download]

2014

Selamet S, Garlock ME (2014). Fire Resistance of Shear Connections. Fire Safety Journal 68: 52–60. [Download]

2013

Selamet S, Garlock ME (2013). Plate buckling in wide-flanged beams at elevated temperatures. Journal of Structural Engineering ASCE 139(11): 1853–1865. [Download]

2012

Pakala P, Kodur V, Selamet S, Garlock M (2012). Fire behavior of shear angle connections in restrained steel frames. JCSR 77: 119–130. [Download]

Selamet S, Garlock ME (2012). Predicting compressive axial forces during fire considering local buckling. JCSR 71: 189–201. [Download]

2010

Selamet S, Garlock ME (2010). Robust fire design of single plate shear connections. Engineering Structures 32(8): 2367–2378. [Download]

Garlock ME, Selamet S (2010). Behavior of plate connections at elevated temperatures. Journal of Structural Engineering 136(7): 897–906. [Download]

Conference Proceedings

2025

Selamet S, Chau S, Ramirez S, Wang L (2025). Predicting Structural Fire Response by AI. SFPE AI Summit, UC Berkeley, May 29–30.

Selamet S (2025). A New Teaching Module for Structural Fire Analysis on NSF NHERI SIMCENTER. NSF NHERI SimCenter Computational Symposium, UCLA, Feb 5–7. [website link]

2024

Selamet S (2024). Understanding Façade Fires. SFPE Fire Safety Conference & Expo, Copenhagen, Apr 16–18.

2023

Orgev AA, Selamet S, Vatansever C (2023). Seismic performance of multistory chevron-braced steel structures with yielding beams. ce/papers 6(3–4). [Download]

Selamet S (2023). Car fires in multi-story parking garages. SFPE European Conference & Expo, Berlin, Germany.

2022

Selamet S(2022). Determining SFRM thermal properties through fire tests on I-beam sections. 12th International Conference on Structures in Fire (SIF), Hong Kong [Download]

Selamet S(2022). Post-fire Stability and Performance of Tall Steel Buildings, Engineering Mechanics Institute (2022) Baltimore, MD USA. [Download]

2021

Dundar U ,Selamet S(2020). FDS Analysis of a High-Rise Residential Building in İstanbul, 14th International Congress on Advances in Civil Engineering (ACE). ONLINE. [Download]

2019

Onursal A ,Selamet S(2019). Türkiye'deki Üniversitelerde Yangın Mühendisliği Müfredat Programı, 6th International Scientific Research Congress (UBAK). Şanlıurfa, Turkey. [Download]


Jodi M ,Selamet S(2019). Yangın Koşulları Altındaki Yüksek Katlı Konutlarda Tahliye, 6th International Scientific Research Congress (UBAK). Şanlıurfa, Turkey. [Download]


Selamet S, Onursal A (2019). Stability of Steel Portal Frames in Industrial Buildings under Natural Fire Conditions, International Civil Engineering and Architecture Conference (ICEARCH). Trabzon, Turkey. [Download]

2017

Jones M, Selamet S, Wang Y, Calis M (2017). Fire safety of high-rise residential buildings: scope of fire engineering and comparison between UK and Turkish Practice. ASFE, Manchester, UK. [Download]

2016

Gernay T, Selamet S, Tondini N, Khorasani NE, (2016). Urban infrastructure resilience to fire disaster: An overview. World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban Planning Symposium (WMCAUS) - Procedia Engineering, Prague, Czech Republic. [Download]


Yolacan T F, Selamet S (2016). Thermo-Mechanical Behavior of Steel Beam-Concrete Slab Composite Floors. Advances in Civil Engineering (ACE), Istanbul,Turkey [Download]

2015

Selamet S, Akbas E(2015). Reliability risk assessment of high-rise buildings in case of fire. 2nd International Conference on Performance-based and Lice-cycle Structural Engineering (PLSE), Brisbane, Australia. [Download]

Selamet S, Uzun M(2015). A novel and efficient finite element software for heat transfer: FEHEAT. 1st International Conference on Structural Safety under Fire and Blast (CONFAB), Glasgow, Scotland. [Download]

Selamet S, Topcu K(2015). (Turkish) Yarı rigit çelik bağlantıların yüksek katlı yapılarda deprem davranışına etkisi . Eigth National Conference on Earthquake Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey. [Download]

2014

Selamet S, Ozdemir T, Bolukbas C (2014). Fire performance of steel shear connections in a composite floor. 8th International Conference on Structures in Fire (SIF), Shanghai, China. [Download]

2013

Ozdemir T, Selamet S (2013). Yüksek katlı yapılarda yangının çökmeye etkisi (in Turkish). TUYAK Third Symposium and Exhibition on Fire and Security, Istanbul, Turkey. [Download]

Selamet S (2013). The impact of fire scenario to the collapse of a tall structure. SEMC Fifth International Conference on Structural Engineering, Mechanics and Computation, Cape Town, South Africa. [Download]

Kilic SA, Selamet S (2013). Symmetric and asymmetric collapse mechanisms of a multi-story steel structure subjected to gravity and fire. ASCE Structures Congress: Bridging your passion with your profession, Pittsburgh, PA. [Download]

Selamet S (2013). Fire performance of an unprotected composite beam with semi-rigid end restraints. ASFE Applications of Structural Fire Engineering, Prague Czech Republic. [Download]

2012

Glassman JD, Garlock M, Selamet S (2012). Shear buckling behavior of steel plate girders at elevated temperatures. Structures. Accepted for Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Structures in Fire (SIF), Zurich, Switzerland.

2011

Selamet S and Garlock M (2011). A comparison between the single plate and angle shear connection performance under fire. In Structures Congress: Don’t Gamble on your Future, Las Vegas, NV. ASCE. [Download]

2010

Selamet S and Garlock ME. (2010). Local buckling study of flanges and webs in I-shapes at elevated temperatures. In Structures Congress, pages 1592–1603, Orlando, FL. ASCE. [Download]

Selamet S and Garlock M (2010). Improved details for fire-induced steel single plate shear connections. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Structures in Fire (SIF), pages 621–628, East Lansing, MI. [Download]

Selamet S and Garlock M (2010). Guidelines for modeling three dimensional structural connection models using finite element methods. In International Symposium Steel Structures: Culture and Sustainability 2010, pages 351–360, Istanbul, Turkey. ECCS. [Download]

2009

Selamet S and Garlock ME (2009). Modified connection details for single plate steel connections under fire. In Structures Congress: Don’t Mess with Structural Engineers, pages 642–649, Austin, TX. ASCE. [Download]

2008

Selamet S and Garlock M (2008). Behavior of steel plate connections subject to various fire scenarios. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Structures in Fire (SIF), pages 139–149, Singapore. [Download]

Supervised Theses

Ugur Dundar (2023). Performance based fire safety evaluation of high-rise residential buildings in Istanbul. [Download]

Hava Nur Yavas (2023). Seismic risk asessment of code-conforming special concentrically braced frame buildings in Turkey. [Download]

Muhammet Calayir (2021). Post-earthquake fire performance analysis fire doors in tall buildings. [Download]

Aykut Onursal (2021). Fire load and characteristics of modern high-rise residential buildings. [Download]

İsmail Baş (2020). Development of a structural engineering oriented finite element software feheat for nonlinear heat transfer analysis. [Download]

Burak Ayva (2020). Performance-based fire safety design for automated vehicleparking steel structures. [Download]

Tuğba Özdemir Mazlum (2019). Fire Performance of Fin Plate Shear Connections modelled with Component Based Method and 3D Finite Elements. [Download]

Mustapha Muazu Jodi (2019). Fire Safety Assessment of High-Rise Residential Buildings. [Download]

Kerem Bulut İldan (2018). Experimental study on the behavior of a prestressed nineteen parallel wire strand (PWS) in suspension bridges under hydrocarbon pool fires. [Download]

Ahmet Fazıl Kara (2018). Surface heat exchange in temperature distribution in I - beam sections under standard fire curve. [Download]

Taygun Fırat Yolaçan (2016). Performance based structural fire safety concept for industrial buildings: strength and stability. [Download]

Kadir Topçu (2015). The effect of semi-rigid steel connections to seismic behavior of high-rise buildings. [Download]

Serdar Selamet, Ph.D., CFEI

Consultant
Exponent – Scientific & Engineering Consulting
Thermal Sciences
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Adjunct Lecturer
Stanford University
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering
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Former Associate Professor
Boğaziçi University (Civil Engineering)

Alma Mater
B.S. Duke University
M.A. Princeton University
Ph.D. Princeton University

Dissertation

Curriculum Vitae: CV

Academic Profile
ORCID: 0000-0001-9444-470X
Scopus ID: 34870656700
ResearcherID: H-9465-2012