Citation

Shepel SV, Wakili KG, Hugi E. J. Fire Sci. 2012; 30(3): 240-255.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2012, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0734904111433265

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The present article is concerned with modelling of heat transfer through a plasterboard panel exposed to fire. Two commercial plasterboard materials are tested for three nominal fire scenarios in a certified furnace, and the obtained temperature measurements are used to test and to validate a numerical model of plasterboard developed recently by Shepel et al. with the ultimate goal of exposing the model to a wider range of fire conditions. Overall, the agreement between the obtained numerical predictions and experimental data is found to be good. Some discrepancies observed at the early and late stages of the dehydration reaction are shown to be caused by the high local heating rate of the material during those stages.

Language: en