Fire Behavior and Fire Protection in Timber Buildings

<p>Introduction<br>Part 1  Behavior of timber at high temperature heating and fire<br>Chapter 1: Specificity of structure and properties of  different timber species<br>1.1. Macro- and microstructure of deciduous and coniferous timber species<br>1.2 Biological and genetic aspects of timber species diversity<br>1.3 Density and moisture of timber species<br>1.4 Thermal and physical properties of timber species<br>1.5 Effect of heating on mechanical properties of timber<br>Chapter 2: Pyrolisis and oxidative decomposition of timber<br>2.1 Mechanism and macrokinetics of pyrolisis of timer<br>2.2 Decomposition of different timber species at thermal oxidation<br>2.3 Numerical models for decomposition and charring of timber<br>Chapter 3: The ignition of timber<br>3.1 Smoldering and glowing ignition of timber<br>3.2 Spontaneous flaming ignition of different timber species<br>3.3 Piloted ignition of timber from radiant heater<br>Chapter 4: Heat release characteristics and combustion heat of timber<br>4.1 Chemical composition and lowest heat of complete combustion of different timber species<br>4.2 Effect of fire conditions on heat release characteristics of timber<br>Chapter 5: Flame propagation on timber surface<br>5.1 Model approaches for flame propagation on carbonizing timber materials<br>5.2 Flame propagation on timber surface towards to direction of oxidizer flow<br>5.3 Flame propagation on timber surface at passing direction of oxidizer flow<br>Chapter 6: Generation of smoke and toxic products at fire of timber <br>6.1  Characteristics of smoking ability of different timber species<br>6.2 Effect of timber combustion regime on toxicity of forming volatile products<br>Part 2:  Fire safety and fire protection of timber buildings<br>Chapter 7: Fire safety and fire resistance of timber building structures and constructions<br>7.1 General approaches to the system of fire safety in timber buildings and thermal fire regime’s assessment<br>7.2 Dynamics of change of fire hazard factors during fire growth and decay phase<br>7.3 Charring rate of different timber species and glued laminated timber at nominal fire exposure<br>7.4 Structure and thermo-physical properties of formed superficial char layers<br>7.5 Fire resistance of timber building members and charring depth<br>Chapter 8: Fire protection of timber building structures and constructions<br>8.1 Recent ways and means of fire protection to increase fire safety and fire resistance of timber building structures<br>8.2 Novel fire retardant impregnation compositions for treatment of timber <br>8.2.1 Effect of surface and deep of fire retardant impregnation of timber on fire safety characteristics<br>8.2.2 Charring parameters of different timber species with fire retardant treatment at standard fire regime<br>8.3 Fire protecting properties of novel environmental friendly intumescent coatings for timber based on plant raw material<br>8.3.1 Method of oxidative modification of plant raw material and some physicochemical characteristics of products<br>8.3.2 Effect of modification and type of plant raw material on fire protection efficiency of intumescent coatings<br>Part 3:  Effect of natural and accelerated artificial aging on fire behavior of timber buildings<br>Chapter 9: Effect of natural aging of timber building structures on fire behavior and fire safety<br>9.1 Transformations in physical structure, chemical composition and properties  in old and ancient timber buildings<br>9.2 Effect of natural age duration on some fire safety characteristics of members of old and ancient timber buildings<br>9.3 Charring parameters and physical properties of char formed at fire action on old timber building structures<br>9.4 Biodegradation of solid timber and complex biological, moisture and fire protection of timber buildings<br>Chapter 10: The changes in fire behavior timber based on different of wood species after accelerated artificial aging<br>10.1 Methods of accelerated artificial aging of timber<br>10.2 Results of physicochemical and thermal analysis of aged timber<br>10.3 Fire safety indices of artificial aged timber based on different wood species<br>Conclusions<br>Subject index<br>Authors’ resumes</p>