Project focuses mainly on shear walls of taller timber buildings,
where connecting and anchoring of wall elements will be
investigated together, on fire safety, namely on façade fire
spread risks and escape routes on those buildings and project will
also address sensor integration into timber elements as early
detection system of fire/overheating and other variables.
The output will be state-of-art report, seminars, impacted articles,
peer-reviewed articles in Czech professional journals, functional
samples and contribution to the Design Guide.
The project activities can be divided into three complementary
interconnected parts. Part A is devoted to the design of
anchorage elements for the reinforcing walls of multi-storey
wooden buildings, which will be verified by large-scale
mechanical tests. Part B is dedicated to the design of the fire belt
for timber structural systems, the effectiveness of which will be
verified both by mathematical models and medium-scale fire
tests. Part C aims to develop integrated sensors in timber
constructions to detect increased temperature, in the final phase
it will be verified in the medium-scale fire tests of Part B.
