Special Issue on Timber in Fire

Bisby, Luke; Frangi, Andréa

doi:10.1007/s10694-015-0539-1

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“…Studies have shown that predictive analysis can be performed on wood’s combustion behavior when exposed to fire. 32–35 Studying the combustion behavior of wood structural components makes it valuable to provide a scientific experimental basis for wood structures’ comprehensive fire research. Due to the development and application of glulam, most of the new and reconstructed timber structure buildings use multi-layer glulam beams and orthogonal glulam (CLT) panels.…”

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Experimental research on temperature distribution and charring rate of typical components of wood structure building

Wei

Yang

Gao

et al. 2022

Journal of Fire Sciences

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This study presents the fire performance of typical components of wood structure buildings. The wooden beams and floor slabs, quite common in wood structure buildings, were burned with different fire exposure times by a pool fire source. Then, the surface temperature evolution and the charring rate were recorded and analyzed. The results show that the flashover and re-ignition phenomenon occurred in all wood materials under the burning pool fires. The glulam beam cross-section was U-shaped, and the maximum charring rates of glulam beam, cross-laminated timber floor, and cross-laminated timber partition board were 0.833 mm/min, 1.538 mm/min, and 0.435 mm/min, respectively. It can be seen that the combustion behavior time of specimens with different cross-section thicknesses is different. If the thickness of the specimens is appropriately increased, their combustion behavior time can be significantly improved.

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Experimental research on temperature distribution and charring rate of typical components of wood structure building

Wei

Yang

Gao

et al. 2022

Journal of Fire Sciences

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“…Fire safety is always an important issue in the development of these new generation massive timber materials. Current research believe that the fire behaviour of wood is predictable (Bisby and Frangi, 2015;Klippel and Frangi, 2017;Ostman et al, 2017;Schmid et al, 2018). International design codes, such as EN 1995EN -1-2:2004EN (2004 and CLT Handbook (FPInnovations, 2013), have provided design strategies to determine the fire resistance-engineered timber structures based on a simplified reduced cross section calculation methodology.…”

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Experimental and numerical analysis on fire behaviour of loaded cross-laminated timber panels

Wang

Zeng

Fang

et al. 2019

Advances in Structural Engineering

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Cross-laminated timber is a relatively new engineered timber material that can be used in the design and construction of modern timber buildings. A key factor that raises concerns in the wide application of cross-laminated timber is the uncertainty of its fire performance. This article describes experimental and numerical investigations on the fire behaviour of loaded cross-laminated timber panels manufactured with Canadian hemlock. A total of 10 cross-laminated timber panels with different number and thickness of layers were tested under ambient and standard fire conditions to investigate the flexural capacity at ambient temperature, and temperature distribution, charring rate, fire resistance, mid-span deflection under fire exposure. Three-dimensional finite element model was developed using the Hashin criterion and cohesive elements to predict the failure of wood and adhesive, respectively. The thermal model implicitly considers the rapidly increased temperature of inner fresh timber after the protective charred layers have fallen off. The numerical model was validated with the results obtained from experimental tests and was found to have the ability to simulate the fire behaviour of loaded cross-laminated timber panels in reasonable accuracy.

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“…This trend can be explained especially by their outstanding physical properties, by the quick building process and, last but not least, also by favourable pricing. As mentioned by Bisby [1]: "Timber is amongst the oldest building materials used by humankind. Timber has consistently remained a key structural and building material in most cultures.…”

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Behaviour of timber beam structures with suspended ceiling when exposed to fire

Rusinová

Kalousek

Lavický

2019

IRASE

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Wooden structures are the oldest building elements accompanying man since time immemorial. The Czech Republic is strict in its legal and normative regulations relating to the use of wooden building components. In spite of that the Czech construction market is increasingly returning to wooden houses; not only for dwelling purposes, but also for public amenities. However, the structures made of wood as combustible material have to be carefully assessed especially from the viewpoint of fire safety of the building. This paper deals with the fire safety of wooden structures with special regard to the suspended type of ceiling, as it fulfils the role of insulation against the effects of fire. In particular, the thermal stress caused by fire and its impact upon the safety of the building elements has been investigated.

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Special Issue on Timber in Fire

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Experimental research on temperature distribution and charring rate of typical components of wood structure building

Experimental research on temperature distribution and charring rate of typical components of wood structure building

Experimental and numerical analysis on fire behaviour of loaded cross-laminated timber panels

Behaviour of timber beam structures with suspended ceiling when exposed to fire

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