- Author
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Brenden, J. J.
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Chamberlain, D. L.
- Title
- Heat Release Rates From Wall Assemblies. Oxygen Consumption and Other Methods Compared.
- Coporate
- Forest Products Laboratory, Madison, WI
National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
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CIB W14/88/07 (USA); FPL Research Paper 476,
June 1986,
23 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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heat release
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heat release rate
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fire retardant treatments
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wood
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ASTM E119
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oxygen consumption
- Abstract
- The rate of heat release is increasingly used to assess the overall fire performance of both individual materials and assemblies. In this study, wall assemblies containing either fire-retardant-treated wood members or steel members were exposed to fire using American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) Method E 119 (1) to obtain additional information on the performance of fire-retardant-treated wood-based structural assemblies exposed to fire; (2) to extend methods of measuring the rate of heat release in individual construction materials to full-scale structural assemblies; (3) to compare heat release rates obtained by the oxygen consumption, substitution, and weight of material/heat of combustion methods; and (4) to determine if heat release rate measurements can be incorporated into ASTM Method E119.