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Modelling the thermal behaviour of wood is complicated as phenomenas such as moisture vaporization and migration, and the formation of char have decisive influences on the temperature development within timber structures. Nevertheless it has been shown that general finite element codes can be used to predict temperature in, for example, fire-exposed cross sections of glued laminated beams [52], provided, of course, that apparent thermal material properties and appropriate boundary conditions are used. Other specialized numerical codes for timber structures have been developed, e.g. by Fung [53] and Gammon [54]. A comprehensive collection of papers on timber in fire is listed in [55].
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Wickström, U. (2016). Temperature of Timber Structures. In: Temperature Calculation in Fire Safety Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30172-3_15
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