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This volume summarizes the authors´ research at the Moscow´s State Fire Academy. Uniquely practical, it shows how to predict the behavior in a fire of real building structures and includes data on the flammability of a range of wood varieties of differing age.

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This volume describes fire behavior and fire protection of timbers in outdoors and indoors application mainly in construction industry. The Authors´ novel approach considers the relationship between various species and age of timbers and its fire behavior at different thermal and fire loads. Quantitative data of ignition speed and flame propagation as well as generation of heat, smoke and toxic products are discussed. Analysis of fire resistance of various types of building materials based on timber of different species as well as the novel data on the effect of natural and accelerated aging of timbers on its fire behavior are discussed. The main practical methods of fire protection of new and ancient timber buildings and structures to increase its fire resistance are considered. The book should be useful for a wide range of readers: chemists, physicists, material scientists, architects, engineers, constructors and restorers.

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