CIVE 5616

Wood Structures and Fire

0.5 credit · Graduate

Introduction to fire-safe design of wood buildings, brief review of wood products and wood design, prescriptive code requirements, determination of fire-resistance of wood structures through different methods.

2021

Topics

Introduction to wood product
Construction methods (light-frame vs. heavy timber)
Wood member design –swan and glulam
Thanksgiving
Review of NBCC prescriptive allowances for wood buildings
Fire resistance of light-frame wood assemblies
Fire resistance of cross-laminated timber
Final assessment TBD

Readings

Wood Design Manual (2015) Canadian Wood Council (required) Structural Design for Fire Safety; 2nd edition (2017) Buchanan (required) Wiley; ISBN-13: 978- 0470972892

Sources

Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
2021-Fall-Outline-CIVE-5616-F ↗2021