Fire Resistance of Timber Joists and Load Bearing Wall Frames

摘要

The goal of the investigations described in this report was to develop a simplemodel which can be used in the structural fire design of typical applications in timber frame housing as wall and floor assemblies. Two types of structures exposed to standard fire exposure on one side were considered: load bearing walls and floors acting as a border of a fire compartment. The experimental investigations in this research project were divided into two parts. In the first, main part timber members were investigated in pure bending using small-scale furnace. In the second part some fulll-scale tests were conducted on axially loaded walls, with the aim of seeing whether the results obtained from small-scale tests could be used to describe the full-scale behavior of a wall.