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Ch 5- Interior Finishes and Passive Fire Protection Flashcards

1
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Exposed interior surfaces of buildings, including fixed or movable walls and partitions, columns, and ceilings

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Interior finish

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Interior finish is also known as….

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Interior lining

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Name 3 fires that greatly influenced fire codes and proved interior finishes can contribute to loss of life?

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LaSalle Hotel, Beverly Hills supper Club, Stations Night Club

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3
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Interior finishes may be classified as trim if they meet what conditions?

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Do not exceed ten percent of the wall and ceiling area, Distributed through the space, Do not constitute a large continuous surface

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Define flame spread?

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Movement of a flame away from the ignition source

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Define Surface-Burning Characteristic?

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Speed at which flame will spread over the surface of a material

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Define Compartment?

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Any enclosed space without internal fire barriers

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What is considered when evaluating for flame spread?

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Composition, orientation, and thickness
Ventilation
Shape and size of a compartment
Finish material on the ceiling or wall

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What is the most significant factor that determines a fuel burn rate?

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Combination of the fuel and the available oxygen

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Does a thin product of 1/4” or less propagate flame faster attached to non combustible material or attached to studs with air space behind it?

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Attaching to studs with air space allows faster flame progression

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Define Listed

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a device or material that has been tested by any of several testing laboratories

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What are the main testing laboratories

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Underwriters, Factory mutual system

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Define Intumescent coating

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Coating or paintlike product that expands when exposed to the heat of a fire

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What creates an insulating barrier that protects the material underneath by expanding when exposed to heat?

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Intumescent coating

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14
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Define Mastics

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heat resistant construction adhesive that bonds with most materials

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15
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What can be used as a flame retardant coating

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Mastics

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16
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What are the four types of fire-retardant coatings?

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Intumescent, Mastics, Gas-forming paints, cementitious and mineral fiber coatings

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17
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Measurement of one components tested performance against a set standard of criteria, not against similar components or assemblies

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Criterion-Referenced Testing

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Criterion-Referenced Testing is also known as?

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Criterion-Referenced assessment

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19
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ASTM E-84

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Standard test used to measure the surface burning characteristics of various materials

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What is ASTM E-84 also known as?

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Steiner Tunnel Test or Tunnel Test

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Steiner Tunnel

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Test apparatus used in the determination of flame spread ratings

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22
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Numerical rating assigned to a material based on the speed and extent to which flame travels over its surface

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Flame spread rating

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23
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Measurement of the propagation of flame on the surface of materials or their assemblies as determined by standard tests

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Flame spread rating

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Smoke developed Rating

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The measure of the relative visual obscurity created during the testing process by a known material

25
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What would cause flame spread to be greater than tested value in ASTM E-84 tests in real world setting?

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Room volume
Room Shape
Fuel loading in the room

26
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What are the two test that test floor coverings?

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NFPA 265 and 286

27
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a measure of relative visual obscurity in an area because of the smoke generated by a burning material

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smoke developed rating

28
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What does the smoke developed rating not test?

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heat, irritation, toxicity, volatility

29
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What is a recently developed large scale test for evaluating contribution of wall and ceiling interior finish to room fire growth?

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NFPA 286

30
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Test procedures that incorporate the size and shape of rooms in a building

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Corner tests

31
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Test results should be used as what? and not guaranteed outcomes

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Benchmarks

32
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Who publishes the Fire Resistance Design manual?

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Gypsum Association

33
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Ul’s Fire resistance directory and Gypsum Association Fire Resistance Design Manual specify what details?

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Materials that can be used
Allowable spacing of structural members
Type, spacing, and nail/screw patterns of the fasteners

34
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Define Compartmentation

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Series of barriers designed to keep flames, smoke and heat from spreading between spaces

35
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What is rated assembly also known as?

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Labeled assembly and fire-rated

36
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Assemblies of building components such as doors, walls, roofs, and other structural features that may be required by code to have a minimum fire resistance rating from independent tester

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Rated assembly

37
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Shelter in place is also known as?

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Protection in place
Defending in place
Sheltering and taking refuge

38
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Having occupants remain in a structure or vehicle in order to provide protection from an approaching hazard

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Shelter in place

39
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Define fire wall

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Fire rated wall with a specified degree of fire resistance

40
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Define fire flow

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The amount of water required to extinguish a fire in a timely manner

41
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One of a set of sections in a building separated from each other by fire resistant partition

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Fire area

42
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In what type of construction is free standing walls found?

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Type III or Type V

43
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Freestanding walls mush be designed to resist a later load of at least how many psi?

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5

44
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The height of this wall is usually between 18 to 36 inches

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Parapet Wall

45
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What would allow for a parapet not to be used?

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noncombustible roof that has a covering of low combustibility Class B

46
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4 hour fire walls must be constructed with what materials?

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concrete or masonry

47
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Self supporting fire walls independent of the structures frame

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Freestanding walls

48
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Fire walls connected to a line of columns or steel structural supports with the same degree of fire resistance

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Tied walls

49
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Vertical extension of an exterior wall and sometimes and interior wall

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Parapet wall

50
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Fire barrier that extends from one floor to the bottom of the floor above or to the underside of a fire rated ceiling assembly

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Fire partition

51
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What provides a lower level of protection than a fire wall

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Fire partition

52
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What type of fire barrier is not required to extend continuously through a building

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fire partition

53
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Nonload bearing exterior wall attached to the outside of a building with a ridged steel frame

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Curtain wall

54
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usually the front exterior wall of a building intended to provide a certain appearance

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Curtain wall

55
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What is usually not continuous in a curtain wall assembly and therefore not an effective firestop

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Support brackets

56
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What is non load bearing and suspended by internal framing?

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Curtain wall

57
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The development of the steel framed high rise building led to the existence of the?

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curtain wall

58
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Curtain walls sever what functions

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resist environment loads
control heat loss
limit noise transmission
limit solar radiation

59
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Building Construction (10 decks)

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