Oriented strand board is a widely used construction material responsible for a substantial
portion of the fire load of many buildings. To accurately model oriented strand board fire …

Oriented strand board is a widely used construction material responsible for a substantial
portion of the fire load of many buildings. To accurately model the response of oriented …

The thermal decomposition of corrugated cardboard has been studied in inert and oxidative
(non-flaming) atmospheres under a range of radiant heat fluxes relevant to fire conditions in …

Accurately representing the time dependent heat release rate of fuels is critical to
performance-based design in fire safety applications. Existing simplified models either use …

Wire and cable coverings are potentially a major cause of fire in buildings and other
installations. As they need to breach fire walls and are frequently located in vertical ducting …

Medium density fibreboard is a homogenous wood product which is a suitable candidate for
validating the pyrolysis model of charring materials. For comparison between model and …

The numerical modeling of solid pyrolysis for fire simulations consists of three stages:
specifying the reaction scheme and physical models, estimating the kinetic and thermal …

A new gasification apparatus has been developed to enable a comprehensive analysis of
pyrolysis of charring and intumescent materials. This apparatus provides well defined …

The current study outlines a general approach to construct a one-dimensional pyrolysis
model based on milligram-scale and bench-scale test data collected systematically to isolate …

When field models are used to predict fires and flame spread, a solid model is required to
calculate the amount of released pyrolysis gases. Here, the integral model for the pyrolysis …