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Response of stone wool–insulated building barriers under severe heating exposures

Andres, Blanca LU ; Livkiss, Karlis LU ; Hidalgo, Juan P. ; van Hees, Patrick LU ; Bisby, Luke ; Johansson, Nils LU orcid and Bhargava, Abhishek LU (2018) In Journal of Fire Sciences 36(4). p.315-341
Abstract

This article presents the experimental results of stone wool–layered sandwich constructions, with either steel or gypsum claddings, tested under four different heating exposures: 7 kW/m2 incident radiant heat flux exposure, 60 kW/m2 incident radiant heat flux exposure, parametric time–temperature curve exposure and ISO 834 standard time–temperature exposure. The test apparatus used were a movable radiant panel system, a mid-scale furnace (1.5 m3) and a large-scale furnace (15 m3). The results show that reduced-scale tests are capable of reproducing the heat transferred through the construction at large scale provided there is limited mechanical degradation. The results indicate that the... (More)

This article presents the experimental results of stone wool–layered sandwich constructions, with either steel or gypsum claddings, tested under four different heating exposures: 7 kW/m2 incident radiant heat flux exposure, 60 kW/m2 incident radiant heat flux exposure, parametric time–temperature curve exposure and ISO 834 standard time–temperature exposure. The test apparatus used were a movable radiant panel system, a mid-scale furnace (1.5 m3) and a large-scale furnace (15 m3). The results show that reduced-scale tests are capable of reproducing the heat transferred through the construction at large scale provided there is limited mechanical degradation. The results indicate that the availability of oxygen is fundamental to the fire behaviour of the sandwich composites tested. Reactions occurring in stone wool micro-scale testing, such as oxidative combustion of the binder or crystallisation of the fibres, have a limited effect on the temperature increase when wool is protected from air entrainment.

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building fire barriers, full-scale experiments, furnace test, H-TRIS test, intermediate scale experiments, severe heat exposures, Stone wool–insulated sandwich panels
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Journal of Fire Sciences
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36
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4
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27 pages
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SAGE Publications
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0734-9041
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10.1177/0734904118783942
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English
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  author       = {{Andres, Blanca and Livkiss, Karlis and Hidalgo, Juan P. and van Hees, Patrick and Bisby, Luke and Johansson, Nils and Bhargava, Abhishek}},
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  language     = {{eng}},
  month        = {{07}},
  number       = {{4}},
  pages        = {{315--341}},
  publisher    = {{SAGE Publications}},
  series       = {{Journal of Fire Sciences}},
  title        = {{Response of stone wool–insulated building barriers under severe heating exposures}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0734904118783942}},
  doi          = {{10.1177/0734904118783942}},
  volume       = {{36}},
  year         = {{2018}},
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