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Determining moisture content and calculating its effect on fire endurance

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DOIResolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.4224/40001349
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  1. National Research Council of Canada
FormatText, Technical Report
Physical description18 p.
SubjectFire
Abstract
For some time there has been an effort to set, by the time of a fire test, the moisture content in fire test specimens close to a level corresponding to that in equilibrium with a surrounding atmosphere of 50 per cent relative humidity (at room temperature). For a great many test specimens, however, it is impossible, at least with the present conditioning techniques, to achieve this moisture condition within a reasonably short time (say in six months) without inhibiting some chemical processes related to the maturing of the specimen, or in other words, without falsifying the characteristics of the material.
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PublisherNational Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research
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  • Fire Study (National Research Council of Canada. Division of Building Research), no. DBR-FS-17 (August 1967).
LanguageEnglish
Peer reviewedNo
NRC numberNRC 9670
NRC-IRC-1737
NPARC number20377446
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