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Experimental and Numerical Studies on the Fire Performance of Thin Sustainable Wood-Based Laminated Veneers

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  • Avishek Chanda

    (Composite Materials and Engineering Center, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA)

  • Oisik Das

    (Structural and Fire Engineering Division, Department of Civil, Environmental and Natural Resources Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, 97187 Luleå, Sweden)

  • Debes Bhattacharyya

    (Centre for Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Design, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Auckland, Auckland 1142, New Zealand)

Abstract

Wood and wood-based products are abundantly used, especially in structural applications, due to the impetus for sustainable development. The present work helps highlight the fire performance of plywood, one of the most used wood-based laminated structural components, under three different heat fluxes of 35 kW/m 2 , 50 kW/m 2 , and 65 kW/m 2 . The effects on the various fire reaction properties, namely, time to ignition, heat release rate, peak heat release rate, time to peak heat release rate, time to flameout, total burn time, and mass loss, were observed and reported. The times to ignition (42.2% and 35.4%), peak heat release rate (27.7% and 18.9%), flameout (22.2% and 28.6%), burn time (10.6% and 16.1%), and residual mass (25% and 53.3%) were reduced with the increase in heat flux from 35 kW/m 2 to 65 kW/m 2 , respectively, whereas the peak heat release (21.7% and 2.4%) and ignition temperature (6.5% and 6.6%) were observed to increase. The vertical burning test (UL-94) illustrated the plywood samples to have a V-1 rating, with self-extinguishing capabilities. A numerical predictive model has also been developed based on the Fire Dynamics Simulator to predict the time to ignition, time to flameout, and heat release rate trend along with the peak heat release rate—it is shown to have good agreement with the experimental results, with an average correlation coefficient of 0.87.

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  • Avishek Chanda & Oisik Das & Debes Bhattacharyya, 2024. "Experimental and Numerical Studies on the Fire Performance of Thin Sustainable Wood-Based Laminated Veneers," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 16(16), pages 1-14, August.
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