FULL SCALE FIRE TESTS OF TIMBER-FRAMED BUILDINGS

摘要

The paper is focused on an experimental fire test of timber-framed buildings.The experimental fire test was carried out in the premises of the PA VUS, a.s.company in Veseli nad Lu(z)nicí in July 2013.The main reason of this experimental fire test were research purposes and also to show the behaviour of a timber construction as a whole (including joints, openings) exposed to a real fire to the general public.An increasing interest in timber structures leads to the necessity of a more thorough examination of their behaviour under fire.Eurocode 5 (EN 1995-1-2) allows calculating the fire resistance of timber structures, this code, however, resolves this issue in a simplified way and may only be applied to a limited scope of claddings.Such experiments are indispensable for scientific research and associated development of new analytical and numerical models.