Fire Behavior and Fire Protection in Timber Buildings [Paperback]

This volume?describes fire behavior and fire protection of timbers in outdoors and indoors application mainly in construction industry.? The Authors novel approach considers the relationship between various species and age of timbers and its fire behavior at different thermal and fire loads. Quantitative data of ignition speed and flame propagation as well as generation of heat, smoke and toxic products are discussed. Analysis of fire resistance of various types of building materials based on timber of different species as well as?the novel data on the?effect of natural and accelerated aging of timbers on its fire behavior are discussed. The main practical methods of fire protection of new and ancient timber buildings and structures to increase its fire resistance are considered. The book should be useful for a wide range of readers: chemists, physicists, material scientists, architects, engineers, constructors and restorers.

This volume summarizes the authors research at the Moscows State Fire Academy. Uniquely practical, it shows how to predict the behavior in a fire of real building structures and includes data on the flammability of a range of wood varieties of differing age.

Introduction
Part 1? Behavior of timber at high temperature heating and fire
Chapter 1: Specificity of structure and properties of? different timber species
1.1. Macro- and microstructure of deciduous and coniferous timber species
1.2 Biological and genetic aspects of timber species diversity
1.3 Density and moisture of timber species
1.4 Thermal and physical properties of timber species
1.5 Effect of heating on mechanical properties of timber
Chapter 2: Pyrolisis and oxidative decomposition of timber
2.1 Mechanism and macrokinetics of pyrolisis of timer
2.2 Decomposition of different timber species at thermal oxidation
2.3 Numerical models for dló#