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Description of  Performance of Combustible Fa ade Systems Used in Green Building Technologies Under Fire (Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering)

This book addresses fire safety of combustible faade systems which has gained much attention in recent times due to several major fire accidents across the world where combustible faade systems had a significant role in enhancing the growth of fire. The Grenfell tower (London) fire is one of the most severe accident in this category. The book covers basic design and functional aspects of commonly used faade systems along with the materials typically used in such systems. Subsequently, it discusses the currently available testing methods at component level, intermediate level, and system level. It also provides detailed case studies of six full-scale real fire faade fire experiments that have been jointly carried out by IIT Gandhinagar and Underwriters Laboratories at the full-scale faade testing facility established at IIT Gandhinagar. The book will enable designers and decision makers to make better assessments regarding fire safety of existing and upcoming faade systems. It also serves as a guide to deciding which testing methods are more appropriate under certain conditions.