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Understanding fire growth for performance based design of bamboo structures

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FIRE SAFETY JOURNAL
Volume 120, Issue -, Pages -

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ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.firesaf.2020.103057

Keywords

Laminated bamboo; Ignition; Fire growth; Heat transfer; Burning rates; Heat release rate

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  1. University of Queensland's Centre for Future Timber Structures

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Laminated bamboo exhibits higher critical heat flux for ignition, ignition temperature, and thermal inertia compared to timber species.
This paper analyses the different parameters governing fire growth and presents the results obtained for laminated bamboo samples produced from the species Phyllostachys pubescens Moso. Parameters such as critical heat flux, temperature for ignition, thermal inertia, mass loss rate and heat release rates are studied herein. Last, the ignition parameters of laminated bamboo are contrasted against the available information on bamboo and commonly used timber products. Results show that overall, laminated bamboo show higher critical heat flux for ignition, ignition temperature, and thermal inertia when compared to timber species.

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