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Official Journal of the Japan Wood Research Society

Table 3 Summary of the specimen charring rates

From: Experimental study on the fire performance of straight-line dovetail joints

Number

Original section size

Reduced section size

Fire exposure time (min)

Charring rate (mm/min)

Width (mm)

Height (mm)

Width (mm)

Height (mm)

Horizontal

Vertical

z10

160

241

150

230

10

0.50

0.55

z20

161

238

134

210

20

0.67

0.70

z30

160

241

123

199

30

0.62

0.70

zp30

160

241

130

215

30

0.50

0.43