Fire Safe Use of Wood in Buildings

Global Design Guide
Herausgeber: Buchanan, Andrew; Östman, Birgit

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

These global guidelines are Open Access at http://www.routledge.com, under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license, is funded by Linneaus University and from the Fire Safe Use of Wood global network, in line with current standards such as the Fire Part of EC5, stressing science, practice, detailing, active fire protection, and quality.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 468
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 857g
• ISBN-13: 9781032040394
• ISBN-10: 1032040394
• Artikelnr.: 64102618

Autorenporträt

Dr Andy Buchanan is Principal at PTL Structural Consultants, and Emeritus Professor of Timber Design at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and is the author of the New Zealand Timber Design Guide and Structural Design for Fire Safety. Dr Birgit Östman is Emeritus in building technology at Linnaeus University, Sweden, has recently won the Bernadotte Royal Award of the Swedish Forestry Association, and the L.J. Markwardt Award for Best paper in Wood and Fiber Science 2018, Forest Products Society, USA

Inhaltsangabe

1. Timber structures and wood products 2. Fire safety in timber buildings
3. Fire dynamics 4. Fire safety requirements in different regions 5.
Reaction to fire performance 6. Fire separating assemblies 7. Load bearing
timber structures 8. Timber connections 9. Prevention of fire spread within
structures 10. Active fire protection by sprinklers 11. Performance-based
design nd risk assessment 12. Robustness in fire 13. Building execution and
control 14. Firefighting considerations for timber buildings