Exposing siding treatments and walls fitted with eaves to firebrand showers

Conference Proceedings - Fire and Materials 2011, 12th International Conference and Exhibition

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 507-518

  Manzello, Samuel L ^a   Suzuki, Sayaka ^a   Hayashi, Yoshihiko ^b  

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

^b BUILDING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTAL CAMPAIGN; FIRE RESEARCH; ORIENTED STRANDBOARD; PARAMETRIC STUDY; RESEARCH INSTITUTES; VINYL SIDING; WIND SPEED; WIND-TUNNEL FACILITIES;

EXHIBITIONS; EXPERIMENTS; POLYPROPYLENES;

WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

EID: 84863409051     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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