Calorific Values
Calorific Values
(OP)
In terms of fire engineering, what kind of data can you get from using the calorific values of materials in a compartment beside just for calculating fire loads?
Can I go any further? Any help would be gratefully appreciated.
Can I go any further? Any help would be gratefully appreciated.






RE: Calorific Values
In short, within some code frame, it is established that for proper adjudication of the resistance to fire of structural and non structural elements at the perimeter of some building or part of it, the the fire load nearby (that, by the way, needs not be inmediate to the wall, could be 5 meters away) influences the required resistance to fire, and hence the design of such parts.
RE: Calorific Values
It would be rare and maybe impractical for any local or even national regulation to ask the neighbor to provide fire loads for a project in our property. Normally within these regulation frame he himself will have to have to protect in the same way our property from a fire on his'