Fire safety engineering of high rise timber buildings

Master thesis (2012)

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A. Breunese (mentor)
W.F. Gard (mentor)
L.J.M. Houben (mentor)
K.C. Terwel (mentor)
Programme
Structural and Building Engineering (CEG) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2012 Longhi, G.
Fire safety engineering High rise timber Buildings Prescriptive codes Performance based codes High rise timber buildings Safir Ozone Advanced fire calculations
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Published Date

24-04-2012

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Programme

Structural and Building Engineering

Abstract

During this MSc thesis it has been carried out an extensive literature review on fire safety engineering, on timber behaviour on fire and on fire safety regulations in different countries. A preliminary design for a high rise cross laminated timber building (CLT) has been carried out in order to obtain a minimum thickness of the structural elements needed for the load bearing structure. This thickness has been verified according to prescriptive fire regulations. Furthermore, fire safety analyses have been performed to evaluate a more realistic fire behaviour of exposed timber structures. The finite element program SAFIR and the fire model OZone have been used in the advance calculations. Finally, it is shown that timber buildings should be designed according to advance fire safety approach and suggestions are given for developing a timber fire model.