Standards Development

Scope

The document provides:

— guidelines for determining the thermal effects to consider on fire barriers inside a given room;

— guidelines for determining the global performance of the fire barriers based on standard test characterization;

— guidelines for assessing the need for additional tests to verify the robustness of the solution.

Requirements of applicable standards, numerical tools validation and verification (V&V), and the expected qualification of fire resistance laboratories are detailed.

The limitations of the method’s applicability and scope are discussed.

The purpose and justification of this document is to specify a method for the verification of the performance of fire barriers, which is initially based on a standardized fire resistance test.