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SIST EN 13381-7:2019
01-september-2019

Nadomešča:
SIST ENV 13381-7:2003

Preskusne metode za ugotavljanje prispevka k požarni odpornosti konstrukcijskih

elementov - 7. del: Zaščita lesenih elementov

Test methods for determining the contribution to the fire resistance of structural members
- Part 7: Applied protection to timber members

Prüfverfahren zur Bestimmung des Beitrages zum Feuerwiderstand von tragenden

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Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 13381-7:2019

ICS:
13.220.50 Požarna odpornost Fire-resistance of building
gradbenih materialov in materials and elements
elementov
91.080.20 Lesene konstrukcije Timber structures

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EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 13381-7

NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM June 2019

ICS 13.220.50; 91.080.20 Supersedes ENV 13381-7:2002

English Version

Test methods for determining the contribution to the fire

resistance of structural members - Part 7: Applied
protection to timber members
Méthodes d'essai pour déterminer la contribution à la Prüfverfahren zur Bestimmung des Beitrages zum
résistance au feu des éléments de construction - Partie Feuerwiderstand von tragenden Bauteilen -
7: Protection appliquée aux éléments en bois Brandschutzmaßnahmen für Holzbauteile

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Contents Page

European foreword....................................................................................................................................................... 6
1 Scope .................................................................................................................................................................... 8
2 Normative references .................................................................................................................................... 9
3 Terms, definitions, symbols and units.................................................................................................. 10
3.1 Terms and definitions ................................................................................................................................ 10
3.2 Symbols and units ........................................................................................................................................ 12
4 Test equipment ............................................................................................................................................. 14
4.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 14
4.2 Furnace ............................................................................................................................................................ 14
4.3 Loading equipment...................................................................................................................................... 14
5 Test conditions .............................................................................................................................................. 14
5.1 Test procedure .............................................................................................................................................. 14
5.2 Support and restraint conditions ........................................................................................................... 14
5.3 Loading conditions ...................................................................................................................................... 15
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6.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 16
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6.2 Number ............................................................................................................................................................ 16
6.2.1 General .............................................................................................................................................................
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6.2.2 Fire protection system variations .......................................................................................................... 17
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6.3 Dimension of test specimens ................................................................................................................... 17
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6.4 Construction ................................................................................................................................................... 17
6.4.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 17
6.4.2 Charring specimens ..................................................................................................................................... 17
6.4.3 Large scale wall test specimen ................................................................................................................ 20
6.4.4 Large scale floor test specimen ............................................................................................................... 20
6.4.5 Large scale beam test specimen.............................................................................................................. 20
6.4.6 Model scale test specimen......................................................................................................................... 21
6.4.7 Application of the fire protection materials to the test specimen.............................................. 21
6.4.8 Insulating materials .................................................................................................................................... 22
6.5 Composition of the test specimen components................................................................................. 22
6.5.1 Timber.............................................................................................................................................................. 22
6.5.2 Fire protection system ............................................................................................................................... 22
6.6 Properties of test materials ...................................................................................................................... 22
6.7 Verification of the test specimen ............................................................................................................ 23
7 Installation of the test specimen ............................................................................................................ 23
7.1 Large scale wall test .................................................................................................................................... 23
7.2 Large scale floor test ................................................................................................................................... 23
7.3 Large scale beam test .................................................................................................................................. 23
7.4 Model scale test ............................................................................................................................................. 24
7.5 Installation patterns ................................................................................................................................... 24
8 Conditioning of the test specimens ........................................................................................................ 24
9 Application of instrumentation .............................................................................................................. 25

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9.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 25

9.2 Instrumentation for measurement of furnace temperature ........................................................ 25
9.2.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 25
9.2.2 Large scale wall test .................................................................................................................................... 25
9.2.3 Large scale floor test ................................................................................................................................... 25
9.2.4 Large scale beam test .................................................................................................................................. 25
9.2.5 Model scale test ............................................................................................................................................. 25
9.3 Instrumentation for measurement of test specimen temperature............................................ 25
9.3.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 25
9.3.2 Charring specimen ....................................................................................................................................... 26
9.3.3 Large scale wall test specimen ................................................................................................................ 26
9.3.4 Large scale floor test specimen ............................................................................................................... 27
9.3.5 Large scale beam test specimen.............................................................................................................. 27
9.3.6 Model scale test specimen......................................................................................................................... 28
9.4 Instrumentation for measurement of pressure ................................................................................ 28
9.5 Instrumentation for measurement of deformation ......................................................................... 28
9.6 Instrumentation for measurement of applied load ......................................................................... 28
10 Test procedure .............................................................................................................................................. 29
10.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 29
10.2 Furnace temperature and pressure ...................................................................................................... 29
10.3 Application and control of load ............................................................................................................... 29
10.4 Temperature of test specimen ................................................................................................................ 29
10.5 Deformation ................................................................................................................................................... 29
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10.7 Termination test ........................................................................................................................................... 29
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11 Test results ..................................................................................................................................................... 29
11.1 Acceptability of test results ......................................................................................................................
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11.1.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 29
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Charring specimen ....................................................................................................................................... 30
11.1.3 Loaded members in Large scale tests ................................................................................................... 30
11.2 Presentation of test results ...................................................................................................................... 30
12 Test report ...................................................................................................................................................... 31
13 Assessment ..................................................................................................................................................... 32
13.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 32
13.2 Assessment of the start of charring ....................................................................................................... 32
13.2.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 32
13.2.2 Large scale test specimen .......................................................................................................................... 32
13.2.3 Charring specimens ..................................................................................................................................... 33
13.3 Assessment of the charring rate ............................................................................................................. 33
13.4 Assessment of failure time ........................................................................................................................ 34
13.4.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 34
13.4.2 Large scale wall test and large scale floor test .................................................................................. 34
13.4.3 Large scale beam test .................................................................................................................................. 34
14 Report of the assessment .......................................................................................................................... 34
15 Limits of applicability of the results of the assessment ................................................................. 35
15.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 35
15.2 Limits of applicability of the assessment results .............................................................................. 35
15.2.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 35
15.2.2 Thickness of fire protection material ................................................................................................... 35
15.2.3 Multiple layers .............................................................................................................................................. 36

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15.2.4 Board or panel size ...................................................................................................................................... 36

15.2.5 Orientation of test ........................................................................................................................................ 36
15.2.6 Timber.............................................................................................................................................................. 36
15.2.7 Insulation materials .................................................................................................................................... 36
15.2.8 Fixtures and fittings .................................................................................................................................... 37
15.3 Additional limits of applicability of the assessment results for specific
construction types ....................................................................................................................................... 37
15.3.1 Walls and floors - type of construction................................................................................................. 37
15.3.2 Beams and columns - type of construction ......................................................................................... 37
Annex A (normative) Model scale test ............................................................................................................... 58
A.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 58
A.2 Test equipment, installation of the specimen and test load ......................................................... 58
A.3 End of the model scale test ....................................................................................................................... 58
Annex B (informative) Overview of available methods of EN 13381-7 ................................................. 61
B.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 61
B.2 Fire protection systems for intended use applied timber frame walls, timber
beams and timber columns: ..................................................................................................................... 61
B.3 Fire protection systems for intended use applied on timber frame floors,
timber frame walls, timber beams and timber columns: .............................................................. 61
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Annex C (normative) Measurement of properties of fire protection materials ................................. 65
C.1 SIST EN 13381-7:2019
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C.2.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 65
C.2.2 Board or slab/mat fire protection materials ..................................................................................... 65
C.2.3 Coatings with reactive and non-reactive fire protection materials and
systems............................................................................................................................................................. 65
C.2.3.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 65
C.2.3.2 Measuring positions for Fire Protection Materials .......................................................................... 66
C.3 Density of applied fire protection materials ...................................................................................... 67
C.4 Moisture content of applied fire protection materials ................................................................... 67
Annex D (normative) Fixing of thermocouples to timber members and timber frame
assemblies and routing of cables............................................................................................................ 69
D.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 69
D.2 Types of thermocouples ............................................................................................................................ 69
D.3 Fixing of thermocouples ............................................................................................................................ 69
D.3.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 69
D.3.2 Internal thermocouples ............................................................................................................................. 69
D.3.3 Thermocouples at the surface of the timber member .................................................................... 70

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D.3.4 Thermocouples in the interlayer of the fire protection system and the cavity
insulation ........................................................................................................................................................ 70
D.4 Routing of thermocouple wires............................................................................................................... 70
D.4.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 70
D.4.2 Internal thermocouples ............................................................................................................................. 70
D.5 Connection of thermocouples .................................................................................................................. 71
D.6 Thermocouple failures ............................................................................................................................... 71
Annex E (informative) Calculation of load to be applied on the large scale test
specimen ......................................................................................................................................................... 74
E.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 74
E.2 Example 1: Load calculation for a large scale wall test specimen .............................................. 74
E.3 Example 2: Load calculation for the large scale beam test............................................................ 76
Annex F (informative) Examples of Assessment of Fire Protection System
Performance................................................................................................................................................... 77
F.1 General ............................................................................................................................................................. 77
F.2 Assessment of the start of charring behind the fire protection system ................................... 77
F.3 Assessment of the charring rate behind the fire protection system ......................................... 80
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Annex G (normative) Test method to the smouldering fire or slow heating curve........................... 84
G.1 Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................
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G.3 Test conditions .............................................................................................................................................. 84
G.4 Test specimens .............................................................................................................................................. 84
G.5 Installation of the test specimens .......................................................................................................... 84
G.6 Conditioning of the test specimens ........................................................................................................ 84
G.7 Application of instrumentation .............................................................................................................. 84
G.8 Test procedure .............................................................................................................................................. 85
G.9 Test results ..................................................................................................................................................... 85
G.10 Evaluation of the results ............................................................................................................................ 85
Annex H (informative) Calculation of the dimensions of the charring specimen
dimensions and the model scale specimen......................................................................................... 87
H.1 Introduction ................................................................................................................................................... 87
H.2 Calculation of the thickness of the charring specimen ................................................................... 87
H.3 Calculation of the number or thermocouples .................................................................................... 88
H.4 Calculation of the charring specimen length...................................................................................... 88
H.5 Calculation of the charring specimen width ....................................................................................... 88
H.6 Calculation of the dimensions of the model scale test specimen ................................................ 89
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European foreword

This document (EN 13381-7:2019) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 127
“Fire safety in buildings”, the secretariat of which is held by BSI.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of
an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by December 2019, and conflicting national
standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by March 2021.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the
subject of patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent
rights.

This document supersedes ENV 13381-7:2002.

This European Standard is one of a series of standards for evaluating the contribution to the fire
resistance of structural members by applied fire protection materials. Other parts of this
standard are:

Part 1: Horizontal protective membranes.

Part 2: Vertical protective membranes.

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Part 6: Applied protection to concrete filled hollow steel columns.

Part 8: Applied reactive protection to steel members.

Part 9: Applied fire protection systems to steel beams with web openings.

Part 10: Applied protection to solid steel rods.

The main changes compared to ENV 13381-7:2002 are:

a) New test procedures have been introduced to address the different fields of applications of
fire protection systems on solid timber products and timber frame assemblies in horizontal
and vertical position and the design models available in EN 1995-1-2.

b) Loaded tests are performed using large-scale test specimens depending on their intended
use on walls or ceilings.

c) The start of charring and the stickability is measured with thermocouples on the timber
member(s) surface of a beam specimen or a timber frame specimen.

d) Charring behind a fire protection system is measured using charring specimens embedded
in the cavity insulation of a timber frame specimen.

e) Interpolation of results for different thicknesses of fire protection system is not allowed.

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f) The use of test results for different orientations obtained in tests in one orientation is
specified.

WARNING - The attention of all persons concerned with managing and carrying out this fire
resistance test, is drawn to fact that fire testing can be hazardous and that there is a possibility
that toxic and/or harmful smoke and gases can be evolved during the test. Mechanical and
operational hazards can also arise during the construction of test elements or structures, their
testing and the disposal of test residues.

An assessment of all potential hazards and risks to health should be made and safety
precautions should be identified and provided. Written safety instructions should be issued.
Appropriate training should be given to relevant personnel. Laboratory personnel should
ensure that they follow written safety instructions at all times.

The specific health and safety instructions contained within this standard should be followed.

This document has been prepared under a standardization request given to CEN/CENELEC by
the European Commission and the European Free Trade Association.

According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organisations of

the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium,
Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece,
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1 Scope
This document specifies test methods for determining the contribution of fire protection kits to
the fire resistance of structural timber members.
Such fire protection kits include claddings, sprayed fire protection and reactive coatings.
The method is applicable to all fire protection kits used for the protection of timber members.
These can be fixed directly, totally or in part, to the timber member and can include an air gap
between the fire protectionkit and the timber member, as an integral part of its design.
Evaluation of timber constructions protected by horizontal or vertical protective membranes
are the subject of EN 13381-1 or EN 13381-2 respectively.
The test method is applicable to the determination of the contribution of fire protection kits to
the fire resistance of loadbearing timber structural members including floors, roofs, walls,
beams and columns.
This document contains the fire test which specifies the test to be carried out to determine the
ability of the fire protection kit at a specified thickness to delay the temperature rise throughout
the timber member, to determine the ability of the fire protection kit at a specified thickness to
remain coherent and fixed to the timber member and to provide data for determining the
charring rate of the protected test member, when exposed to the standard temperature/time
curve according to the procedures defined herein. This document is not appropriated to classify
the tested assembly according to EN 13501-2.
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The fire test methodology makes provision for the collection and presentation of data which can
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of this test method and the assessment of the results obtained
therefrom to EN 1995-1-2 and guidelines for the use of this test method in accordance with that
standard are given in Annex B.
This document also contains the assessment which indicates how the analysis of the test data
should be made and gives guidance to the procedures by which interpolation should be
undertaken.
The limits of applicability of the results of the assessment arising from the fire test are defined,
together with the direct application of the results to different timber constructions with the
specified thickness and fixation of the applied fire protection kit tested.

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2 Normative references
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their
content constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited
applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any
amendments) applies.
EN 301, Adhesives, phenolic and aminoplastic, for load-bearing timber structures — Classification
and performance requirements

EN 338, Structural timber — Strength classes

EN 823, Thermal insulating products for building applications — Determination of thickness

EN 1995-1-1, Eurocode 5: Design of timber structures — Part 1-1: General — Common rules and
rules for buildings

EN 1995-1-2:2004, Eurocode 5: Design of timber structures — Part 1-2: General — Structural fire
design

EN 1363-1, Fire resistance tests — Part 1: General Requirements

EN 1363-2, Fire resistance tests — Part 2: Alternative and additional procedures

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EN 1365-2, Fire resistance tests for loadbearing elements — Part 2: Floors and roofs
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EN 1365-3, Fire resistance tests for loadbearing elements — Part 3: Beams
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EN 12467, Fibre-cement flat sheets — Product specification and test methods

EN 13162, Thermal insulation products for buildings — Factory made mineral wool (MW)
products — Specification

EN 13381-1, Test methods for determining the contribution to the fire resistance of structural
members — Part 1: Horizontal protective membranes

EN 13381-8, Test methods for determining the contribution to the fire resistance of structural
members — Part 8: Applied reactive protection to steel members

EN 14080, Timber structures - Glued laminated timber and glued solid timber — Requirements

EN 14081-1, Timber structures — Strength graded structural timber with rectangular cross
section — Part 1: General requirements

EN 15425, Adhesives — One component polyurethane (PUR) for load-bearing timber structures —
Classification and performance requirements

EN ISO 2808, Paints and varnishes — Determination of film thickness (ISO 2808)

EN ISO 13943, Fire safety — Vocabulary (ISO 13943)

ISO 8421-2, Fire protection — Vocabulary — Part 2: Structural fire protection

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ISO 834-12, Fire resistance tests — Elements of building construction — Part 12: Specific
requirements for separating elements evaluated on less than full scale furnaces

3 Terms, definitions, symbols and units

3.1 Terms and definitions

For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in EN 1363-1, EN ISO 13943
and ISO 8421-2, together with the following, apply.
ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following
addresses:
— IEC Electropedia: available at http://www.electropedia.org/

— ISO Online browsing platform: available at http://www.iso.org/obp

3.1.1
board
part of a building assembly of typically not reactive material, used as a part or as fire protection
material

3.1.2
cavity insulation
stone wool insulation in batts of reaction to fire class A1 and a density of 30 KG/m3 (±5 KG/m3)
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tested according this standard to achieve a loading of and heat accumulation in the fire exposed
fire protection kit
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border-line between char layer and the residual cross section assumed to be equal with the
position of the 300 degree Celsius isotherm

3.1.4
charring depth
distance from the original surface of the timber member to the char line

3.1.5
charring specimen
non-load bearing, instrumented, laminated timber specimen containing one temperature
measurement station incorporated into a large scale test specimen, into a large scale test or a
model scale test specimen to follow the charring behind a fire protection kit

3.1.6
failure time
time at which failure of the fire protection kit occurs, due to detachment of a significant area or
sudden significant temperature rise upon the initially protected timber surface

3.1.7
fire protection material
material or combination of materials applied to the surface of a timber structural member for
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3.1.8
fire protection kit
fire protection material together with a prescribed method of attachment to a timber structural
member for which the fire protection kit may include multiple layers of materials and multiple
combinations of materials

3.1.9
model scale test
test to determine the charring rate during the protected charring phase on a furnace of full scale
or less than full scale depending on the dimension of the model scale test specimen

3.1.10
passive fire protection materials
materials which do not change their physical form upon heating, provide fire protection by
virtue of their physical or thermal properties, and they may include materials containing water
which, on heating, is removed to produce cooling effects

3.1.11
reactive fire protection materials
materials which are specifically formulated to provide a chemical reaction upon heating such
that their physical form changes and in so doing provide fire protection by thermal insulative
and cooling effects

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element of building construction which may be loadbearing or non-loadbearing and which is
mainly constructed from solid timber and/or other wood based products
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protection afforded to the timber member by the fire protection kit such that the rise of
temperature of the timber and fixings is limited or delayed throughout the period of exposure to
fire

3.1.14
stickability
ability of a fire protection material to remain sufficiently coherent and in position without
failure due to detachment of a significant area or sudden significant temperature rise upon the
initially protected timber surface

3.1.15
temperature measurement station
number of thermocouples in different depths which are installed within the charring specimen
and are representative for a limited area

3.1.16
test specimen
assembly of the timber or wood based test member with its fire protection kit

3.1.17
spreader beam
stiff beam with a height width ratio of equal or less than 1,0 used in large scale tests to
distribute the load uniformly placed on the top of the large scale floor test specimen or the large
scale wall test specimen over the whole width of the specimen

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3.1.18
start of charring
point in time when the temperature measurement at an initially fire protected timber surface
reaches or exceeds 300 °C

3.1.19
wood defect
knot, bark pocket, resin pocket, pith or crack

3.1.20
large scale test
loaded test to determine the start of charring behind the fire protection kit and the stickability
of a fire protection kit (applied to a horizontal or vertical timber framed assembly or to a timber
beam) on a full scale furnace

3.2 Symbols and units

For the purposes of this document, the following symbols and units apply.
Symbol Unit Description
A mm2 Area
E0.05 N/mm2 Fifth percentile value of modulus of elasticity
Iz mm4 iTeh STANDARD
Second Moment PREVIEW
of area about the z-axis
Lexp mm Length of (standards.iteh.ai)
the specimen exposed to the heating
Lsup mm Length of the specimen between centres of supports
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T °C Temperature
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b mm Width of the large scale test specimen
c mm Centre distance of loaded joists
d mm Vertical distance between horizontal joints
dchar mm Charring depth
dTC mm Distance of the thermocouple from the exposed side of the timber member
fc,0,d N/mm2 Design compressive strength along the grain
fc,0,k N/mm2 Characteristic compressive strength along the grain
h mm Depth of the timber member;
The height of a large scale test specimen;
The depth of the model scale test specimen;
The height of the joists in a large scale wall test
hc mm Depth of the aerated concrete member
hD mm Thickness of the decking of the large floor element
hp mm Thickness of the fire protection kit. In the case of two or more layers of fire
protection material hp is the sum of the thicknesses.
hD mm Thickness of the decking at the non-exposed side for large scale wall test
specimens and large scale floor test specimens

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Symbol Unit Description

iz mm Radius of inertia about the z-axis
kmod Modification factor for duration of load and moisture content
k2 Protection coefficient
l mm Length of the large scale wall specimen
lc mm Length of the aerated concrete members

la mm Length of the mechanical fixation penetrating in the virgin wood

l a,0 mm Anchorage length of the mechanical fixation in the wood at t = 0

lm mm Measurement length. Length where thermocouples are distributed

lm,i mm Measurement length where thermocouples of one temperature
measurement station are distributed; i from 1 to 3
ls mm Length of the model scale test specimen
s mm Distance between thermocouples
sf mm Minimum distance to the furnace walls
t min Time
tch min iTeh STANDARD
Start of charring at the surface ofPREVIEW
a timber member
tch,model min Time when (standards.iteh.ai)
the average temperature of the surface TC attached to the model
scale specimen reaches 300 °C
tch,1 min Assumed start of SIST EN 13381-7:2019
charring based to calculate the charring depth specimen
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depth and the number of thermocouples needed
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t300 min Time at which the temperature indicated by a thermocouple placed at the
surface of the timber test member or at a specified point within a protected.
timber test member, reaches 300 °C
tf min Failure time of the protection for stickability
ttest min Time of termination of test
wc mm Width of the aerated concrete members
wf mm Width of the opening to which the tested element is mounted
ws mm Width of the charring specimen
x mm Centre distance between first 2 outer joists or studs of a large scale wall test
specimen or a large scale floor test specimen
Length of a defect
β mm/min charring rate
βo mm/min One-dimensional charring rate according to EN 1995–1-2
βn mm/min Notional charring rate according to EN 1995–1-2

β2 mm/min Charring rate behind a fire protection kit according to EN 1995–1-2

γM Partial factor for material properties, also accounting for model
uncertainties and dimensional variations

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