FIRE PREVENTION METHOD FOR EXISTING JAPANESE TRADITIONAL ADOBE WALL

Current fire resistance rating system is suited for modern industrial products. However, it is not feasible for traditional craftsmanship as adobe wall, either practically or economically, to test in the full scale all assemblies with a variety of thickness, materials and techniques, while making quantitative measurements of their responses. This research takes a more pragmatic approach, which is the use of semi-empirical models capable of accurately predicting the response of adobe walls to a wide range of construction conditions. These models have drawn upon reduced-scale tests to yield the predicted response.