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Conventional steel beams exhibit lower structural performance when subjected to thermally induced axial expansion. In this regard, the design of a connection plays an utmost essential role in restrained beams. Most existing studies on the thermal behaviour of connections have so far focused only on vertical end-plate (conventional) type. This paper describes therefore the elastic mechanical behaviour...