Print Email Facebook Twitter Fire safety engineering of high rise timber buildings Title Fire safety engineering of high rise timber buildings Author Longhi, G. Contributor Van de Kuilen, J.W.G. (mentor) Breunese, A. (mentor) Gard, W.F. (mentor) Houben, L.J.M. (mentor) Ravenshorst, G.J.P. (mentor) Terwel, K.C. (mentor) Faculty Civil Engineering and Geosciences Department Structural Engineering Programme Structural and Building Engineering Date 2012-04-24 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. Subject Fire safety engineeringHigh rise timber BuildingsPrescriptive codesPerformance based codeshigh rise timber buildingsSafirOzoneAdvanced fire calculations To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:4e8b0303-050a-4c37-aedd-2c5a0f9fa953 Embargo date 2012-04-28 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights (c) 2012 Longhi, G. Files PDF MSc_Thesis_Giulio_Longhi_.pdf 3.73 MB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:4e8b0303-050a-4c37-aedd-2c5a0f9fa953/datastream/OBJ/view