Performance of a non-load-bearing steel stud gypsum board wall assembly: Experiments and modelling

Fire and Materials

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 297-310

  Manzello, Samuel L ^a   Gann, Richard G ^a   Kukuck, Scott R ^b   Prasad, Kuldeep ^a   Jones, Walter W ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compartmentation; Fire resistance; Heat flux; Partitions; Wall

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIRE RESISTANCE; FLAMMABILITY TESTING; GYPSUM; HEAT FLUX; STEEL; STUDS (STRUCTURAL MEMBERS);

GYPSUM WALL ASSEMBLY; HEAT FLUX GAUGES;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

EID: 34547546370     PISSN: 03080501     EISSN: 10991018     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/fam.939     Document Type: Article

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