Fire performance of hardwood species

Abstract

In this era of performance-based building codes, there is an increased need for models and data pertaining to the fire safety of building materials. In addition to data for the prescriptive regulatory fire tests, material property data are needed to optimize the advantages of the performance-based building codes that are being introduced worldwide. In this review of our research on the fire performance characteristics and fire safety engineering of wood products, we will present results on the fire performance of hardwood species. Two broad areas of fire safety engineering of materials are 1) Fire initiation and growth, and 2) Fire containment.

Citation

White, Robert H. 2000. Fire performance of hardwood species. In: Proceedings of the XXI IUFRO World Congress. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. 13 p.