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Performance based design for mass timber structures in fire– A Design Example
October 2018
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Daniel Brandon1, Koji Kagiya2, Tuula Hakkarainen3
1 RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Drottning Kristinasväg 61, P.O. Box 5604, Stockholm, Sweden, [email protected]
2 Building Research Institute, 1 Tachihara, Tsukuba, 305-0802, Japan, [email protected]
3 VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd, P.O. Box 1000, FI-02044 VTT, Finland, [email protected]
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Performance based design for mass timber
structures in fire– A Design Example
COST Action FP 1404
“Fire Safe Use of Bio-Based Building Products”
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Brandon, D, Kagiya K, Hakkarainen, T. Performance based design for mass timber
structures in fire – a design example, COST Action FP1404, Zürich, Switzerland, 2018.
DOI 10.3929/ethz‐b‐000319459
Version 1 (2018)
Updates and corrections: http://www.costfp1404.ethz.ch/publications.
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Contents
1 Introduction ................................................................................................................... 5
2 Aim of the method ......................................................................................................... 6
3 Recommendations regarding the use of the method .................................................... 6
4 Compartment for performance based design ............................................................... 7
5 Determining parametric design fire exposure ............................................................... 8
6 Preventing failure of the base layer of gypsum boards ............................................... 11
7 Preventing fire char fall‐off .......................................................................................... 14
8 Structural calculations .................................................................................................. 15
9 Discussion of method ................................................................................................... 15
10 Conclusions ............................................................................................................... 16
11 Acknowledgments .................................................................................................... 16
12 References ................................................................................................................ 16
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1 Introduction
Recent fires in tall buildings occurring in for example London, Dubai, Sao Paulo and Tehran evidence
the risk of high consequences of fires in tall buildings and difficulties for fire service interference in
case of large fire spread. In order to reduce the risk of deadly and large damage fires in especially
tall buildings it is of importance to limit fire spread and avoid collapse [1].
It was previously indicated that prescriptive fire safety regulations are mostly based on experience
rather than on scientific facts [2]. Therefore, the application of regulations for less conventional
buildings, such as tall timber buildings, is questionable. In contrast with prescriptive requirements,
performance based requirements, such as a requirement for a building to withstand a full fire
without effective fire service interference, require accounting for the design and the function of the
building. Multiple performance based methods for the fire safety design are available for buildings
with conventional structural materials, i.e. steel and concrete. For buildings with timber as a
structural material performance based structural design is rarely applied due to lack of methods
available.
The number of tall buildings with timber as their main structural material is increasing globally,
which involves new fire safety challenges. In contrast with more conventional structural materials
for tall buildings, timber can fuel the fire and influence its duration and severity. A number of
previous experimental studies have shown that enough contribution of exposed timber to the fuel
of a fire can result in continuous fully developed fires. Additionally, events that lead to increased
combustion, such as sudden exposure of initially protected timber or bond line failure in glued
timber members, can lead to fire regrowth after a period of decay [3]. Without effective sprinkler
or fire service interference, these fires would eventually lead to collapse, which can lead to
potentially unacceptable consequences in very tall buildings.
Recently, a pragmatic strategy and performance based design methods [4, 5] were proposed to
design a structure for withstanding a fire without any presence of fire surface interference. The
strategy involved:
the limitation of fire spread
structural design for realistic compartment fire conditions
In this paper an example of generating a design time‐temperature curves for a compartment that
has been fire tested will be given. An example of the structural assessment of timber elements is
not given, but relevant methods are published [6‐8].
In order to generate design fires using the performance based design methods [4, 5] it is needed to
prevent events that lead to increased combustion, which potentially lead to fire regrowth and/or
continuous fires. By including the contribution of timber conservatively, the method allows to
determine a limit of area of timber that can be initially exposed in order to avoid continuous fires
that need to be manually extinguished.
Additionally, comparisons between predictions and other available test results are discussed.
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2 Aim of the method
An example of calculations for design to fulfil the following performance criterion is provided:
The building should withstand an uncontrolled fire for the full duration of the fire, only requiring
manual extinguishment of potential smouldering combustion.
The term uncontrolled is here used to indicate the absence of effective sprinkler and fire service
interference. As smouldering of timber and other combustible materials can continue for a long
time, it is required to check local smouldering of timber after a fire. It is recommended that this is
done using thermal camera’s [9] as shown in Figure 1. Besides calculations, some choices of
products that are important to achieve decaying fires are discussed.
Figure 1: Searching for smouldering combustion after a fire [1]
3 Recommendations regarding the use of the method
Buildings are not required to survive a full natural fire in most European countries. Examples of
exceptions are buildings of certain types in Denmark and Norway. However, due to the risk of
uncontrolled fires, an expert group of COST Action FP1404 on the fire safe use of bio‐based building
materials has recommended the design of buildings to withstand burnout in uncontrolled fires in
cases indicated in Figure 2 [10]. This tree diagram indicates that designing to withstand burnout is
recommended in cases in which the local fire brigade cannot reach the whole building from the
outside, or if collapse of a building cannot be ethically accepted and when the sprinkler reliability is
not sufficient.
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* Examples of structures whose collapse may not be acceptable even after a certain fire duration are structures which
hold multiple immobile persons such as hospitals and care houses or buildings that have only a single escape route.
Figure 2. Tree‐diagram indicating scenarios for which design‐for‐withstanding‐burnout is recommended
[10]
4 Compartment for performance based design
The example discussed in this paper is based of fire tests reported in [10], which were performed at
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in cooperation with the Forest Products
Laboratory. The compartment’s inner dimensions were 9.2 x 9.2 x 2.7 m and there were two
ventilation openings in one wall of the compartment of 3.6 m wide by 2.4 m high. The fuel load
comprised of typical apartment furniture with an average density of 550MJ/m2. The compartment
comprised of 5‐layer CLT walls and a ceiling of similar CLT. 25m2 of the CLT of the ceiling was
exposed. All other surfaces were encapsulated. The amount of type‐F or type‐X gypsum protection
needed was calculated in this example using a method proposed by [4].
Figure 2: Dimensions and fuel load density of compartments tested at the ATF fire lab
Is the top of the building withinthe reach of the local fire brigade?
Yes
No(not recommended)
Are sprinklers installed?
No
Is the sprinkler system sufficiently reliable toaccept risks ofmalfunction
Yes
No
YesCan collapseafter a regulatedtime period be accepted?*
No
Yes
Design towithstandburnout(recommended)
Design towithstandburnout(recommended)
Inner dimensions9.2 x 9.2 x 2.7 m
550 MJ/m2
3.6 x 2.4mopening
3.6 x 2.4mopening
Floor plan
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5 Determining parametric design fire exposure
The temperature‐time curves for parametric fires which are incorporated in Eurocode 1 (EN1991‐
1‐2 [12]) are based on a modification to the standard time‐temperature curve of ISO834. The
parametric design fires (time‐temperature curves) originate from a one‐zone model, which is only
suitable for predictions corresponding to post‐flashover fires in compartments with limited
dimensions. According to EN1991‐1‐2 [12] this method can only be used for compartments with
floor areas up to 500 m2.
First an opening factor should be calculated:
0.105 vv
t
AO hA (1)
with:
Av is the area of the ventilation openings ‐> Av = 17.8 m2
At is the total surface area of the compartment boundaries ‐> At = 265.4 m2
hv is the height of the ventilation opening (note: for multiple ventilation openings with
different heights rules from EN1991‐1‐2 apply) ‐> 2.4 m
The calculated opening factor, therefore, is: O = 0.105
Brandon [4] showed that temperatures in the full developed phase of a compartment fires with
solely gypsum board linings were similar to temperatures in compartments with large quantities of
exposed timber, suggesting that the same thermal inertia can be assumed for timber and gypsum
board linings. This pragmatic approach avoids having to account for a number of complex
phenomena such as evaporation of moisture, mass transfer, surface combustion. Using this
approach, the following lining properties are chosen:
c 770W / mK (2)
Where ρ is the density, c is the specific heat and λ is the thermal conductivity of the lining material.
The heating rate factor can be calculated using:
15.7 2 2Γ (O / cλ ) / (0.04 /1160) (3)
To generate a parametric time temperature curve that accounts for exposed CLT an iterative
procedure is performed. In the first iteration the contribution of CLT in the compartment fire is not
taken into account, as there is no knowledge yet of the quantity of contribution. Using the
parametric time temperature curve of the first iteration, the thickness of the char layer is
determined and the maximum combustion energy corresponding to the char layer is determined.
The determination of the time temperature curve of the 1st iteration is discussed first. The start of
decay according to Eurocode 1 (EN1991‐1‐2 [12]) corresponding to a compartment with non‐
combustible linings can be calculated using:
1max 0.32 h3
t,d limt max (0.2 10 q /O);t (4)
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Similarly, for the ith iteration the time of decay can be calculated using:
max ,
i it d
3limt max (0.2 10 q /O);t (5)
Where, tlim is the lower limit of the duration of the heating phase, which is 0:15h, 0:20h or 0:25h
for slow, medium and fast fire growth, respectively.
The relationship between the fire temperature, Θ, and the time, t, is given by [12]:
ttt eee 197.12.0 472.0204.0324.01(132520 (6)
After the start of the cooling phase at tmax, the temperature decreases linearly until it reaches 20°C
according to one of the following expressions:
)(625 maxmax xtt if 5.0max t (7)
))(3(250 maxmaxmax xttt if 25.0 max t (8)
)(250 maxmax xtt if 2max t (9)
1.0x if limmax tt or ΓΓ/ttx maxlim if limmax tt
The time‐temperature curve of the first iteration can be determined as shown in Figure 2. Brandon
[4] proposed including the contribution of wood, using an iterative procedure using the following
equation:
2( )
i 1CLT 1 char;end par maxi 1 1
td tdc
A α d β tq q
A (10)
With:
ACLT is the surface area of exposed CLT given in m2 ‐> 25 m2
dichar,end is the final char depth in mm of the ith iteration according to [13]‐> i ichar,end
par 0d 2β t (11)
i0t is the time at which the charring rate reduces in the ith iteration according to Hadvig
(1981) ‐>
i
i t,d
0
qt 0.009
O (12)
βpar is the charring rate in mm/min according to [13]‐>
1.03mm / min
par 0
0.2 Γ 0.04β 1.5β
0.16 Γ 0.08 (13)
β0 is the one dimensional charring rate according to Eurocode 5 (EN 1995‐1‐2 [14]) ‐> β0 =
0.65 mm/min (softwood)
Ac is the total surface area of the compartment boundaries (including walls and ceiling) in
m2 ‐> Ac = 265.4 m2
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α1 the ratio between heat release and char depth according to Schmid et al. [15] ‐> α1=5.39
MJ/m2mm.
α2 is the fraction of the CLT combustion that takes place outside ‐> an empirical study of
multiple compartment fire test series indicated that α2=0.7 if solely the movable fuel
(combustible content) of the compartment would be sufficient to lead to a fully developed
fire [4]. For situations in which this cannot be assumed, α2 should be lower.
The superscripted letter i denotes the number of the iteration, meaning that the char depth from
the first calculation is used to calculate the fuel load density used for the second calculation
(iteration) and so forth.
The only parameters that change every iteration are provided in Table 1, for 6 iterations. It can be
seen that the values converge and that they do not change from the 4th iteration onwards. This
indicates that the fire would involve a decay phase if char fall‐off (also called fire induced
delamination), encapsulation failure and other phenomena leading to suddenly exposed
combustibles are prevented, as the combustion of the initially exposed surface is not sufficient to
sustain a fully developed fire. Non‐converging iterations of the parametric time‐temperature curves
would indicate that there is too much timber exposed to reach a decay phase. The parametric time
temperature curves can be calculated using eq. (10). The parametric time‐temperature curves
corresponding to the first 4 iterations are shown in Figure 3. However, it is important to note, that
the implementation of this curve, requires the prevention of sudden exposure of cold timber
surfaces to the fire. Therefore, fire char fall‐off and encapsulation failure need to be avoided, as is
discussed in the next sections.
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Table 1: Parameters corresponding to the first 6 iterations.
Iteration tmax (h) dichar,end (mm) ti0 (min) i
tdq (MJ/m2)
1 0.33 45.3 14.7 171.6
2 0.34 48.1 15.5 182.4
3 0.35 48.5 15.6 183.6
4 0.35 48.5 15.6 183.8
5 0.35 48.5 15.6 183.8
6 0.35 48.5 15.6 183.8
Figure 3: Parametric time temperature design fire exposure
6 Preventing failure of the base layer of gypsum boards
In order to prevent encapsulation failure (i.e. failure of the base layer of gypsum boards),
temperature calculations of the boundaries are performed using Safir. The calculations can be done
using different commercial software. 2 layers of 15mm type F gypsum boards are assumed and it is
checked whether these would remain in place in this analysis. If and when the temperature on the
unexposed side of the gypsum layer reaches 300°C, fall‐off is assumed. At this time step of the
analysis the gypsum board is removed and the temperature calculation is continued, assuming
0
200
400
600
800
1000
1200
1400
0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45
Firetemperature(°C)
Time(min)
1st iteration
2nd iteration
3rd iteration
4th iteration
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exposure (thermal radiation and convection) on the base layer, as is shown in Figure 4. The
prediction indicates no encapsulation failure, if the temperature behind the base layer does not
exceed 300°C before the end of the parametric design fire.
Figure 4: Removal of a layer of type F gypsum boards (grey) from the modelled assembly after the gypsum
failure criterion is reached. The modelled assembly before removal (left) and after removal (right).
A schematic drawing of the finite element model is shown in Figure 5. The first model represented
two layers of 15mm type F gypsum boards and a CLT slab of 175mm thick. The model consisted of
a single strip of two‐dimensional square elements. In the figure the fire exposure is on the left side.
The model aims to predict one‐dimensional heat transfer through the wall assembly. The element
size of 1 x 1mm and a time step of 2 seconds were verified by performing a mesh sensitivity analysis.
As one‐dimensional heat transfer was needed, there was no heat gain or heat loss implemented
from the longitudinal sides. At both ends convective and radiative heat transfer are taken into
account using:
)T-σε(T)T-(Thq 4s
4fsfcn (14)
where qn is the net heat flux through the surface, hc is a convection coefficient, σ is the Stefan
Boltzmann constant, ε is the effective emissivity, Tf is the fire temperature and Ts is the surface
temperature. On the exposed side a convection coefficient of 25 W/m2K and an emissivity of 0.8
were used, which are in accordance with EN 1991‐1‐2. Similarly, on the unexposed side, the same
emissivity and a lower convection coefficient were implemented (9 W/m2K). The parametric design
fire exposure obtained above (Figure 3) was used to describe the fire temperature for the
calculations. The thermal properties of wood were taken from [7] and the thermal properties of
gypsum were taken from [16] (Table 2). After the criterion for fall‐off has been fulfilled, the exposed
gypsum layer can be removed from the model for further predictions, as shown in Figure 4.
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Figure 5: Schematic drawing a finite element model for calculations of temperatures behind gypsum boards.
Boundaryconditions: Convectionand radiation
Fire tem‐perature
1mm
total thickness
1st layer thickness
GB layer 1 GB layer 2
a) Before fall‐off of 1st gypsum board (GB) layer
Ambient tempera‐ture
Boundaryconditions: Convectionand radiation
CLT layer
2nd layer thickness
Boundary conditions: Convection and radiation
Fire tem‐perature
1mm
total thickness
GB layer 2Ambient tempera‐ture
Boundaryconditions: Convectionand radiation
CLT layer
2nd layer thickness
b) After fall‐off of 1st gypsum board (GB) layer
Boundary conditions: Convection and radiation
Fire tem‐perature
1mm
total thickness
Ambient tempera‐ture
Boundaryconditions: Convectionand radiation
CLT layer
CLT thickness
c) After fall‐off of 2nd gypsum board (GB) layer
CLT thickness
CLT thickness
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Table 2: Effective thermal properties for temperature calculations of gypsum boards – linear interpolation
should be applied for other values at other temperatures [16]
Temperature (°C) Thermal conductivity (W/mK) Specific heat (J/kgK) Density (kg/m3)
20 0.25 1500 680
78 0.25 1842 680
85 0.25 2769 642
90 0.25 5234 615
97 0.205 8684 577
110 0.12 15096 577
124 0.12 22000 577
139 0.12 2006 577
148 0.12 1001 577
373 0.12 714 577
430 0.12 715 577
571 0.12 571 577
600 0.12 607 577
609 0.128 618 577
662 0.176 3000 577
670 0.183 3070 577
685 0.197 571 577
800 0.3 571 577
1000 0.6 571 577
1200 1.4 571 577
7 Preventing fire char fall‐off
Char fall‐off (also referred to as fire induced delamination) is a phenomenon that has been observed
in CLT exposed to fire and has been the cause of fire regrowth and continuous fully developed fires
in previous fire experiments [3]. Brandon and Dagenais [17] proposed an experimental method to
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identify adhesives that do not lead to delamination, by replicating certain relevant fire conditions
of a compartment in a smaller scale furnace tests. Alternatively, Janssens [18] proposed to
standardise full scale compartment fire tests for the identification of non‐delaminating adhesives.
The use of non‐delaminating adhesives should avoid sudden exposure of cold timber surfaces to
potentially high fire temperatures. This, therefore, prevents increased heating, charring and heat
release rates.
8 Structural calculations
Methods for structural calculations of timber exposed to parametric design fires are proposed in
previous publications [6‐8]. In [6, 7] effective cross‐section methods are proposed to calculate the
reduction of capacity in parametric fires. The method in [9] requires calculations of temperatures
throughout the timber members, but is the only available method suitable for structural members
with inhomogeneous cross‐sections. This paper does not include examples of structural
calculations.
9 Discussion of method
The predicted char depth at the end of the test using parametric design fires which account for the
contribution of exposed timber to the fire was 48.5 mm (see Table 1). The compartment was fire
tested [10] and in accordance with the report the temperature measurements indicated the
charring depth was in between 23 and 35mm thick.
Previously, comparisons made between the predicted char depth and the maximum char depths
measured at the end (or after a significant period of fire decay) of multiple compartment fire tests
indicated that the method is conservative as all predictions seem to be lower than the maximum
determined fire tests (Figure 6). This indicates that the predictions of structural damage imposed
by post‐flashover fires are conservative and that parametric design fires accounting for the
contribution of exposed wood can be conservatively used as a basis for structural analysis.
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Figure 6: Predicted charring depths and experimental charring depths after compartment fires.
10 Conclusions
This paper provides a worked example of generating design fires for compartments with exposed
wood. The design fire can only be used for CLT that is not prone to char fall‐off and requires
sufficient fire board protection on surfaces that are not exposed. The method uses parametric
design fires according to Eurocode 1 and, therefore, corresponds only to post‐flashover fires in
compartments with limited dimensions.
A parametric design fire was generated for a compartment made of CLT with exposed wood in the
ceiling. Using temperature calculations the number of required gypsum board layers required to
avoid involvement of protected CLT in the fire was determined. The compartment corresponded to
a previous flash‐over fire test and comparisons between the predicted and measured char depth
indicated that predictions were conservative. Additionally, a previous validation of the method
against numerous compartment fire test results was briefly discussed.
11 Acknowledgments
The authors acknowledge COST Action FP1404 for providing the network that led to the
collaboration between the authors.
12 References
[1] Brandon D., Just A., Andersson P., Östman B. 2018. ‐Mitigation of Fire Spread in Multi‐Storey Timber Buildings – statistical analysis and guidelines for design. Research Institutes of Sweden, RISE Report 2018:43, Stockholm, Sweden.
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0 20 40 60 80 100 120
Experimentalcharringdepthatornearthe
endofacom
partmenttest(mm)
Predictedcharringdepthatorneartheendofacompartmenttest(mm)
Exact solution
Maximum chardepthreported/foundversus predictionsusing eq.8 and eq.13
Conservative side
non-conservative side
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[14] EN 1995‐1‐2 (2004) Eurocode 5: Design of Timber Structures – Part 1‐2: General – Structural Fire Design. European Committee for Standardization.
[15] Schmid J, Santomaso A, Brandon D, Wickström U, Frangi A (2017) Timber under real fire conditions ‐ the influence of oxygen content and gas velocity on the charring behavior. Journal of Structural Fire Engineering. DOI 10.1108/JSFE‐01‐2017‐0013.
[16] Tiso M (2014) Charring behavior of cross‐laminated timber with respect to the fire protection; comparison of different methods in small, model and large scale with simulations. Master Thesis. University of Trieste, Italy.
[17] Brandon D., Dagenais C. (2018) Fire Safety Challenges of Tall Wood Buildings – Phase 2: Task 5 – Experimental Study of Delamination of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) in Fire. National Fire Protection Association. NFPA report: FPRF‐2018‐05.
[18] Janssens M (2017) Development of a fire performance assessment methodology for qualifying cross‐laminated timber adhesives. South West Research Institute.
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