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An Experimental Study on Fire Resistance Performance of Curtain-Wall System with Steel-Aluminum Hybrid Frame  

Lee, Jae-Sung (한남대학교)
Yim, Hyun-Chang (포항산업과학연구원)
Cho, Bong-Ho (아주대학교)
Kim, Heung-Yeal (한국건설기술연구원)
Publication Information
Fire Science and Engineering / v.25, no.6, 2011 , pp. 104-111 More about this Journal
Abstract
Aluminum has been widely used as frame materials in the curtain walls. Recently, use of steel as a curtain wall frame is being considered due to its higher strength and thermal resistance than aluminum. In this study, fire tests on the basis of EN 13830 were performed with aluminum and steel-aluminum hybrid curtain walls. From the tests, fire resistance integrity, thermal insulation, and radiation properties were evaluated for both systems and compared. According to the test results, the steel-aluminum hybrid curtain wall showed better fire-performance than the typical aluminum curtain wall for the fire resistance integrity and radiation properties. Although, the fire resistance performance for the insulation property was 6 min for both the two frames, the collapses were occurred at 36 min for the steel-aluminum hybrid curtain wall and at 13 min for the aluminum hybrid curtain wall.
Keywords
Hybrid curtain wall; Aluminum curtain wall; Fire resistance performance;
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