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Fire performance of external wall claddings under a performance‐based building code
AbstractNew Zealand Building Code Performance requirements relating to fire performance of external walls are considered and methods of evaluating the potential for vertical fire spread are discussed. Classifying external wall claddings on the basis of performance in the ‘combustibility’ test has proved overly restrictive where some external cladding materials are concerned. Performance criteria based on heat relase or ‘degree of combustibility’ are proposed and they seem to provide a better classification scheme for external wall cladding materials. Heat release test data for ten different external wall cladding materials are presented.
Fire performance of external wall claddings under a performance‐based building code
AbstractNew Zealand Building Code Performance requirements relating to fire performance of external walls are considered and methods of evaluating the potential for vertical fire spread are discussed. Classifying external wall claddings on the basis of performance in the ‘combustibility’ test has proved overly restrictive where some external cladding materials are concerned. Performance criteria based on heat relase or ‘degree of combustibility’ are proposed and they seem to provide a better classification scheme for external wall cladding materials. Heat release test data for ten different external wall cladding materials are presented.
Fire performance of external wall claddings under a performance‐based building code
Fire and Materials
Wade, Colleen (author)
Fire and Materials ; 19 ; 127-132
1995-05-01
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
Fire Performance of External Wall Claddings Under a Performance-based Building Code
| British Library Online Contents | 1995
Fire Performance of External Wall Claddings Under a Performance-based Building Code
| Online Contents | 1995