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A common approach for designing buildings for lateral stability during and post‐fire in New Zealand is to ensure that a fire‐rated structure does not collapse when subjected to a nominal horizontal force. For external walls of residential buildings, which are required to resist a lateral load of 0.5 kPa, it is hypothesised that the adjacent unrated construction could provide sufficient support. A...
Owing to the influence of two‐dimensional heat transfer, fire tests and heat transfer calculations show that charring on the narrow side of rectangular timber cross‐sections may be considerably greater than charring on the wide side. For timber members unprotected throughout the time of fire exposure as well as members initially protected from fire exposure, it is shown by calculation, that the relationship...
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