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Author
Cachim, P. B. | Franssen, J. M.
Title
Assessment of Eurocode 5 Charring Rate Calculation Methods.
Coporate
University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal University of Liege, Liege, Belgium
Journal
Fire Technology, Vol. 46, No. 1, 169-181, January 2010
Keywords
charring | timber | wooden structures | fire resistance | computation | isotherms | equations | char depth | thermal analysis | density effects | moisture | moisture content | specific heat
Identifiers
fire design; Eurocode 5; SAFIR (Smoke Gas Analysis by Fourier Transform Infrared Spectorscopy); influence of density; influence of moisture content in the conduction model; comparison of conductive and charring rate models; reduced properties method (RPM); reduced cross section method (RCSM); advanced calculation method (ACM)