Ch 5- Interior Finishes and Passive Fire Protection

Question 1

Interior finish is also known as….

Answer 1

Interior lining

Question 2

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

Answer 2

LaSalle Hotel, Beverly Hills supper Club, Stations Night Club

Question 3

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

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Define flame spread?

Answer 4

Movement of a flame away from the ignition source

Question 5

Define Surface-Burning Characteristic?

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Define Compartment?

Answer 6

Any enclosed space without internal fire barriers

Question 7

What is considered when evaluating for flame spread?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Combination of the fuel and the available oxygen

Question 9

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?

Answer 9

Attaching to studs with air space allows faster flame progression

Question 10

Define Listed

Answer 10

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

Question 11

What are the main testing laboratories

Answer 11

Underwriters, Factory mutual system

Question 12

Define Intumescent coating

Answer 12

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

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Intumescent coating

Question 14

Define Mastics

Answer 14

heat resistant construction adhesive that bonds with most materials

Question 15

What can be used as a flame retardant coating

Answer 15

Mastics

Question 16

What are the four types of fire-retardant coatings?

Answer 16

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

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Criterion-Referenced Testing

Question 18

Criterion-Referenced Testing is also known as?

Answer 18

Criterion-Referenced assessment

Question 19

ASTM E-84

Answer 19

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

Question 20

What is ASTM E-84 also known as?

Answer 20

Steiner Tunnel Test or Tunnel Test

Question 21

Steiner Tunnel

Answer 21

Test apparatus used in the determination of flame spread ratings

Question 22

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

Answer 22

Flame spread rating

Question 23

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

Answer 23

Flame spread rating

Question 24

Smoke developed Rating

Answer 24

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

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Room volume Room Shape Fuel loading in the room

Question 26

What are the two test that test floor coverings?

Answer 26

NFPA 265 and 286

Question 27

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

Answer 27

smoke developed rating

Question 28

What does the smoke developed rating not test?

Answer 28

heat, irritation, toxicity, volatility

Question 29

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

Answer 29

NFPA 286

Question 30

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

Answer 30

Corner tests

Question 31

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

Answer 31

Benchmarks

Question 32

Who publishes the Fire Resistance Design manual?

Answer 32

Gypsum Association

Question 33

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

Answer 33

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

Question 34

Define Compartmentation

Answer 34

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

Question 35

What is rated assembly also known as?

Answer 35

Labeled assembly and fire-rated

Question 36

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

Answer 36

Rated assembly

Question 37

Shelter in place is also known as?

Answer 37

Protection in place Defending in place Sheltering and taking refuge

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Shelter in place

Question 39

Define fire wall

Answer 39

Fire rated wall with a specified degree of fire resistance

Question 40

Define fire flow

Answer 40

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

Question 41

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

Answer 41

Fire area

Question 42

In what type of construction is free standing walls found?

Answer 42

Type III or Type V

Question 43

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

Answer 43

5

Question 44

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

Answer 44

Parapet Wall

Question 45

What would allow for a parapet not to be used?

Answer 45

noncombustible roof that has a covering of low combustibility Class B

Question 46

4 hour fire walls must be constructed with what materials?

Answer 46

concrete or masonry

Question 47

Self supporting fire walls independent of the structures frame

Answer 47

Freestanding walls

Question 48

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

Answer 48

Tied walls

Question 49

Vertical extension of an exterior wall and sometimes and interior wall

Answer 49

Parapet wall

Question 50

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

Answer 50

Fire partition

Question 51

What provides a lower level of protection than a fire wall

Answer 51

Fire partition

Question 52

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

Answer 52

fire partition

Question 53

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

Answer 53

Curtain wall

Question 54

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

Answer 54

Curtain wall

Question 55

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

Answer 55

Support brackets

Question 56

What is non load bearing and suspended by internal framing?

Answer 56

Curtain wall

Question 57

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

Answer 57

curtain wall

Question 58

Curtain walls sever what functions

Answer 58

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

Question 60

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

Answer 60

Interior finish