Diseño y simulación de una puerta cortafuego peatonal batiente de simple hoja

Abstract

Fire doors are very important fire protective devices and their specifications are usually evaluated through furnace test. However, computational programs can survey the behavior of a specific design of a fire door using FEM without the expenses of manufacturing. Thus, this document focuses on preparing a technical correct simulation of a fire door under NFPA regulations. A 60 minutes fire door was obtained, and from the simulations it is observed that the first layer of steel does not matter over the isolation, opposite to the distribution of the insulating material and the quantity of the internal stiffeners that greatly affects the behavior.