- Author
- Frangi, A. | Fontana, M.
- Title
- Fire Performance of Timber Structures Under Natural Fire Conditions.
- Coporate
- Swiss Federal Institute of Technology ETH Zurich, Switzerland
- Book or Conf
- Fire Safety Science. Proceedings. Eighth (8th) International Symposium. International Association for Fire Safety Science (IAFSS). September 18-23, 2005, Intl. Assoc. for Fire Safety Science, Boston, MA, Beijing, China, Gottuk, D. T.; Lattimer, B. Y., Editors, 279-290 p., 2005
- Keywords
- fire research | fire safety | fire science | timber | fire tests | sprinkler systems | sprinklers | wood | building materials | experiments | hotels | material properties | fire detection systems | fire load | ignition | flashover
- Identifiers
- fire performance; tests under natural conditions; performance based design; overview of the full scale tests performed under natural fire conditions; four hotel modules (H1, H2, G1 and G2); details of the materials and their thicknesses used for the construction of the four modules (single layers are given from the interior to the exterior of the room); movable fire load for the fire tests BÜ; additional fire load due to combustible construction materials; main results of the fire tests BE with activated sprinkler system; main results of the fire tests BÜ with sprinkler system turned off