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Wood & Fire Safety 2024 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Wood & Fire Safety 2024
This proceedings volume presents new scientific works of the research workers and experts in the field of Wood Science & Fire.
It looks into the...
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Wooden Historical Buildings and Determinants of their Fire Protection as a Challenge for Fire Service Officials and Preservationists
Cultural monuments in the Slovak Republic currently represent a group of objects that are difficult to protect against fire, mainly due to the lack...
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Principles for Firefighting Assets Allocation. Integrating National and Regional Forest Fires Logs into the Vulnerability Analysis
Italian forest fire fighting assets include personnel, equipment, vehicles, helicopters and airplanes. The national resources are mainly represented...
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An Innovative Engineered Wood Product Made from Densified Wood with Enhanced Fire Performance – State-of-the-Art
As an environmentally friendly wood-modification method, thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) densification is being developed to improve the intrinsic...
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Thermal Degradation Spruce (Picea abies L.) by Thermal Loading
Spruce (Picea abies L.) is one of the most widespread trees for wood processing in Slovakia, with the widest application (production of plywood,...
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Study of the Atomization Fragmentation Mechanism Under the Electrostatic Field
In the process of liquid electrostatic atomization, the electrodynamic force will play an important role in the development of surface fluctuations,...
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Preparation of Glass Sampling Containers to Determine Trace Amounts of Accelerants in Fire Samples
Gas chromatography is be used to prove the presence of small amounts of organics trapped on solid samples or in liquid samples from fires and it...
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The Progressive Test Method for Assessing the Thermal Resistance of Spruce Wood Treated with Flame Retardants
The article is focused on evaluating untreated and flame retardant treated spruce wood (Picea abies (L.) H. Karst), used as a building material,...
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Classification Tests of the Reaction to Fire of Modified Cellulosic Materials Encrusted with Expandable Graphite
Despite a large amount of data on innovative fire protection technologies for wood and lignocellulosic materials, the primary trend is creating fire...
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Determination of Notional Char Rates for Protected and Unprotected Timber When Subjected to Variations in Heating Regimes, Test Duration and Thermocouple Configurations
There has been much discussion in technical literature regarding the best method of installing thermocouples to minimise interference with the...
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The Role of Insurance in Scaling Mass Timber Construction: Review on Enablers and Shortcomings
Forests play an essential part in nature conservation and restoration, biodiversity, climate change mitigation and especially the transformation to a...
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The Outlook for Wooden Buildings in the Czech Republic from the Point of View of Technical Standardization Committee 27 Fire Safety of Buildings
There is currently a sufficient amount of wood in the territory of the Czech Republic, enabling its wide use in several areas. One of these is the...
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Comparative Analysis of the Flammability Characteristics of Historic Oak Wood from 1869 and Contemporary Wood
The tests are aimed at demonstrating the flammability of historic (old) oak wood compared to the fire resistance of modern oak wood. The tested wood...
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Physico-Chemical and Thermal Transformations of Wood of Long-Term Natural Ageing
In this paper, the physicochemical and thermal transformations of long-term naturally aged wood are investigated. The results obtained indicate a...
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Study of Resistivity of Beech Wood Dust Depending on Particle Size
Different types of combustible dusts are used in industry. These dusts can cause an explosion. The wood industry works almost exclusively with...
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Improving the Fire Performance of Chemically Modified Pine (P. Sylvestris) Sapwood by an Integrated Modification Approach
Natural wood has been widely used for construction and building purposes. However, wood is susceptible to wood-destroying organisms moisture-induced...
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Thermal Properties of Borax/Lauric Acid-Impregnated Wood
Phase change materials (PCMs) are solid materials that absorb and release large amounts of latent heat during a phase change. However, the biggest...
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Thermal Finite Element Analysis of a Post-Tensioned Timber Connection
Post-Tensioned Timber (PTT) structural systems have many advantages over conventional timber frames including low-damage, re-centring and fast...
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Temperature Measurements in Timber Exposed to Fire Using Thermocouples
Fire tests on non-loaded steel-timber composite elements and their numerical simulation are achieved. Differences between measured and simulated...
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Exploring the Influence of Thin Intumescent Coatings on the Onset and Rate of Charring for Mass Timber During Fire
This experimental fire study investigates the application of two thin intumescent coatings on mass timber (CLT), to assess their capacity as a means...