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Author
Benichou, N. | Sultan, M. A. | Takeda, H. | Mehaffey, J. R.
Title
Fire Resistance of Loadbearing Wood-Stud Wall Assemblies: A Tool for Performance-Based Design.
Coporate
National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario Forintek Canada Corp., Sainte-Foy, Canada
Book or Conf
International Conference on Fire Research and Engineering (ICFRE3), Third (3rd). Proceedings. Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and International Association of Fire Safety Science (IAFSS). October 4-8, 1999, Society of Fire Protection Engineers, Boston, MA, Chicago, IL, 299-310 p., 1999
Keywords
fire research | fire protection engineering | walls | fire resistance | wood | equations | elastic properties | temperature profiles | deflection | temperature distribution | thermal properties | insulation | shrinkage | charring | gypsum board
Identifiers
load-bearing, gypsum protected, wood-stud wall assemblies; wood-stud walls; structural resposne model; details of the wall tests; comparison of tests results and model predictions