Project description
Fire safety of tall timber structures including the fire decay phase
Tall timber buildings offer a sustainable solution for future densely populated cities. Their main worldwide barrier relates to fire safety, and standard tests omit the fire decay phase. However, this is of crucial importance for timber structures because wood loses mechanical properties at relatively low temperatures. Thus, the precise interaction between fire and structure needs to be understood because the temperature propagation through the load-bearing timber can unexpectedly lead to failure. FIReSafeTimber investigates key challenges related to the fire dynamics inside timber buildings and the resulting deterioration of the timber mechanical properties using computational models and fire experiments at various scales. FIReSafeTimber aims at developing performance-based methodologies for the fire-safe design of timber structural systems including the fire decay phase.
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Programme(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Funding Scheme
HORIZON-AG-UN - HORIZON Unit GrantCoordinator
9000 Gent
Belgium
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Partners (2)
EH8 9YL Edinburgh
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8092 Zuerich
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