- Author
- Manzello, S. L. | Gann, R. G. | Kukuck, S. R. | Prasad, K. R. | Jones, W. W.
- Title
- Performance of a Non-Load-Bearing Steel Stud Gypsum Board Wall Assembly: Experiments and Modeling.
- Coporate
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD
- Journal
- Fire and Materials, Vol. 31, No. 5, 297-310, August/September 2007
- Keywords
- gypsum board | walls | steels | experiments | compartments | fire resistance | partitions | heat flux | fire spread | temperature measurements | fire load | test fires | equations | ignition | flashover
- Identifiers
- compartmentation; wall assembly; stud cavity; exposed face; unexposed face; phenomenology of a typical partition's response and (possible) failure; water-cooled Schmidt-Boelter total heat flux gauges (15mm diameter); test fires were ignited using a spray burner
- Abstract
- A gypsum wall assembly was exposed to an intense real-scale compartment fire. For the wall assembly, temperatures were measured at the exposed face, within the stud cavity, and at the unexposed face during the fire exposure. Total heat flux gauges were used to measure the temporal variation of the energy incident on the walls, and cameras, both visual and infrared, were used to image the unexposed face of the wall assembly during the fire exposure. The behaviour of the wall assembly under the fire load is discussed as are current model results for a simulation of the fire test.