Charring Rate for Fire Exposed X-Lam

Design of timber structures has been outlined in Eurocode 5. Notional charring rate for softwood and hardwood timber is given. For the performance of X-LAM panels in fire, only little information on charring is available and whether the fire behaviour of X-LAM is similar to homogenous timber panels...

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Published inIOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering Vol. 216; no. 1; pp. 12061 - 12065
Main Authors Wong, Bernice VY, Tee, Kong Fah
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Bristol IOP Publishing 01.06.2017
Subjects
Building codes
Charring
Fire resistance
High temperature
Panels
Performance evaluation
Wooden structures
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Summary:Design of timber structures has been outlined in Eurocode 5. Notional charring rate for softwood and hardwood timber is given. For the performance of X-LAM panels in fire, only little information on charring is available and whether the fire behaviour of X-LAM is similar to homogenous timber panels has not yet been systematically analysed. This paper presents an overview of fire performance of X-LAM and evaluation of its resistance to elevated temperature as an element of structure in comparison to homogeneous timber panels. Numerical study has been carried out based on available experimental results. Charring rates for X-LAM panels obtained from experimental results are compared with those obtained from Eurocode 5 and proposed simplified model.
ISSN:1757-8981
1757-899X
DOI:10.1088/1757-899X/216/1/012061