2013•International Conference "Wood Science and Engineering in the Third Millennium", Braşov, Romania, 7-9 November 2013.Requires access
Improvement of the reaction to fire performance of cellular wood material.
Edgars Bukšāns, Andris Morozovs, Edgars Rudzitis
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Abstract
Cellular wood material is new product in global market and its performance in fire fundamentally is not known. The reaction to fire performance of cellular wood material and its improvement methods is presented in this paper. The reaction to fire performance of cellular wood material was valuated. This paper is focused on methods on the improvement of reaction to fire performance of this material. Several fire protection systems were developed with chemical and mechanical fire protection to improve fire performance of cellular wood material. Two different scale fire tests were used to evaluate reaction to fire performance of developed prototypes. Six different chemical fire protection applications were tested in cone calorimeter test and five different cellular wood material prototypes were tested in single burning item. Fire growth rate and total heat release of burning material was analysed as well as heat release dynamics during the test. The fire performance of cellular wood material could be increased by tested fire protection systems.