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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
48. Critical Issues in Fire Protection of Cultural Resources
Author : Kyriakos Papaioannou
Published in: 10th International Symposium on the Conservation of Monuments in the Mediterranean Basin
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
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Abstract
The aim of this paper is to emphasize some critical issues used in the fire design of the cultural resources. Cultural heritage includes historic buildings and sites, museums, libraries, places of worship, etc. Among the so-called passive measures, a significant role plays the design and provision of compartmentation and the fire resistance of compartment boundaries.
The determination of fire resistance is to expose a prototype construction element or system to standardized heating conditions, simulating as far as possible the use of them in a building. Many countries have national standard fire resistance tests, although the last years’ attempts have been made to harmonize these in one international standard ISO-834. As the duration of every real fire is almost impossible to be precisely predicted, the construction elements in buildings may have less or longer resistance depending on the severity of the fire. Designing fire protection systems in historic buildings requires imagination and innovation to minimize the intrusion on authenticity.