Wood in fire, flame spread and flame retardant treatments - July 1981
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- 9 million tramping feet on a hardwood floor
- Solid rectangular column factors (sawn sections) loads at unit stress
- solid rectangular column factors (planed sections) April 1962
- solid rectangular beam factors (sawn sections) uniformly distributed loads at unit stress (continued) - April 1962
- solid rectangular beam factors (planed sections) uniformly distributed loads at unit stress - April 1962
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When wood and tire are mentioned in the same sentence we connect them at first with other inbuilt concepts like kindling wood, yule log fires and the spread of The Great Fire of London in 1666 among the wooden buildings. An increasing amount of timber is being used in buildings as timber framed dwellings and timber cladding both internally and externally.
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