@article{ref1,
title="Fire Resistance of Handcrafted Log Walls",
journal="Journal of fire protection engineering",
year="2001",
author="Houdek, Dalibor and Bahyl, Vladimir",
volume="11",
number="3",
pages="131-150",
abstract="The objective of this paper is to study the fire resistance of the handcrafted full-scribe chink-less log wall. Log construction is growing in popularity, but knowledge of its fire performance and availability of experimental fire data are limited. Sometimes when a high fire resistance rating of a log wall is required, the application of a layer of gypsum wallboard is recommended to increase the assembly fire resistance. The experimental research of an untreated log wall proved that the wall can achieve a very high fire resistance rating by itself and additional steps to increase its fire resistance are not necessary. Use of a traditional handcrafted log system provides the comfort level of prefabricated manufacturing, and significant fire resistance without the need for increasing the assembly costs.<p />",
language="",
issn="1042-3915",
doi="10.1106/03UN-CWYX-2WD8-A6AA",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1106/03UN-CWYX-2WD8-A6AA"
}