| Download | - View final version: Intermediate-scale furnace: a new fire resistance test facility at the National Research Council Canada (PDF, 698 KiB)
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| DOI | Resolve DOI: https://doi.org/10.4224/20377352 |
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| Author | Search for: Sultan, M. A.1; Search for: Séguin, Y. P.1; Search for: Latour, J. C.1; Search for: Leroux, P.1; Search for: Henrie, J. P.1 |
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| Affiliation | - National Research Council of Canada. NRC Institute for Research in Construction
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| Format | Text, Technical Report |
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| Physical description | 19 p. |
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| Subject | Walls; Floors |
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| Abstract | A new non-standard intermediate-scale fire resistance test furnace facility was commissioned at the National Research Council of Canada to test reduce-scale building elements such as walls, floors, beams and slabs with and without applying load. This was developed to complement the long existing standard full-scale wall and floor furnace fire resistance test facilities at the National Research Council. This new furnace helps to reduce time and costs associated with testing building elements and it can be used to examine assembly design parameters prior to testing an assembly in a full-scale furnace. Although this non-standard furnace facility is not intended to replace tests in the full-scale furnaces, it can be used as an intermediate step to reduce the number of full-scale tests needed during the design and development phases of an assembly. This facility has also proven to be a very versatile tool in a several major NRC projects as it allows the researchers and clients to perform - inexpensively and quickly - parametric comparisons of building elements of different design parameters, identifying the most promising solutions, which can then be tested at full-scale to verify their acceptability. This furnace can be run using the time-temperature curves specified by the CAN/ULC-S101, ASTM E119 and ISO 834 standards or by using a custom designed time-temperature curve. |
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| Publication date | 2006-01-01 |
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| Publisher | National Research Council of Canada |
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| Language | English |
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| Peer reviewed | No |
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| NRC number | NRC-IRC-17871 |
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| NPARC number | 20377352 |
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| Record identifier | a461b5df-5b18-4b20-8da4-36137ef70876 |
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| Record created | 2012-07-24 |
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| Record modified | 2022-09-27 |
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