- Author
- Olsson, P. A.
- Title
- Bench Scale Testing of Light Timber Frame Walls.
- Coporate
- University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
- Report
- Fire Engineering Research Report 98/6, June 1998, 226 p.
- Keywords
- walls | timber | fire tests | heat transfer | validation | plasterboard | cone calorimeters | heat fulx | gypsum boards | insulation | wood | thermal behavior
- Identifiers
- conical radiator to predict furnace behavior for light timber frame walls
- Abstract
- Wood studs protected with gypsum plasterboards have been tested in the cone calorimeter to investigate the possibility of using a conical radiator to predict furnace behavior for light timber frame walls. Other phenomena, such as the behavior of gypsum boards, insulation materials and wood when exposed to high heat flux, have also been of interest during the experimental and theoretical work. It has been shown that it is not possible to use a constant heat flux in the cone calorimeter to achieve the similar charring rate and time to onset of char as those observed in full-scale experiments.