Wood structures are common in housing industry in North America. As wood is a combustiblematerial, fire safety is a concern in these structures. These structures are designed to have adequate fireresistance rating under normal fire exposure. Although post-earthquake fire is quite common, there is noprovision in the current codes to safeguard these buildings under such events. The structure after anearthquake may suffer extensive damage, and consequently, it will not withstand a fire event for which itis originally designed. The present article investigates the post-earthquake fire performance of wood studwall systems and provides an insight on the behaviour of these structures. A numerical model for stabilityof wood frame walls exposed to fire has been proposed to estimate the fire resistance of these systems.The proposed numerical model has been validated with the experimental study conducted earlier at theNational Research Council of Canada on stud walls subjected to standard fire exposure. A parametricstudy is conducted to identify the effect of post-earthquake damage to fire resistance of a wall system. Itis found that the post earthquake fire resistance of a stud wall is reduced considerably even due to amoderate level of seismic damage.
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