TITLE:
J2-50063 - Sustainable long-term use of timber structures - fire and post-fire deterministic and probabilistic solutions
DESCRIPTION:
In recent decades, environmental challenges have become increasingly important. In 2021, European Commission launched a European Green Deal strategy, with the main purpose to promote a circular economy with green technology, create a sustainable industry and transport, and reduce emissions and pollution. Among the industries that considerably contribute to degradation and climate change is undoubtedly civil engineering, which is still based on a heavy concrete and steel industry that causes many negative impacts. Therefore, civil engineering needs a complete renovation, in line with the goals of the European Green Deal. The solution is offered in the more widespread and efficient use of wood as a building material which does not leave negative impacts typical of steel or concrete. When designing environmentally friendly and sustainable buildings, wood is almost indispensable material and often represents the whole or a large part of the load-bearing system. Thus, a challenge to better design timber buildings, in an efficient, economical, environmentally friendly, and sustainable way is always present and topical. A great challenge in ensuring sustainable timber structures represents the requirement for fire safety and fire resistance of the structure. In addition, for a sustainable and log-term use, it is also important to design a timber building so it can survive a fire event during its lifetime, while it can still be normally used after fire, without changing its load bearing elements. For this, the phenomena that take place during fire exposure as well as after fire exposure needs to be known. Since the problem of safety in fire and post-fire conditions is very complex, the key is merging experts of different disciplines and scientists with the introduction of innovative experimental methods and numerical models. The main objective of the project is to develop new advanced experimental methods for determining the physical, rheological and mechanical properties of structural timber and development of a new numerical models for predicting the long-term behaviour of timber structures in fire and post-fire conditions.
DURATION:
2023/10/01 - 2026/09/30
FUNDING:
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