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The following project work studies trusses and roof structures and their performance during a fire in terms of rules and requirements that needs to be considered. Determination of how resistant truss or roof construction is still heavily dependent on the subjective experience and assessment of professional. It means that nowadays stages of this defining of fire resistance of roof/truss are still in need of clarification. The load combination for accidental load is compared to the ultimate limit state during the fire and it was showed that the loads were lower. The strength of timber during the fire was calculated by the two methods. Calculations by both methods revealed that timber used in construction can withstand fire by 0 minutes. However, fire resistance of the wooden materials can be improved by different techniques that were described in this study. The biggest improvement of fire resistance can be achieved with the help of covering - gypsum boards and rockwool, or even with wooden covering if lower protection is needed. As well, many fire-retardant treatments were developed that can improve wood performance during fire by slowing down the spread of fire, by limiting the building up of smoke and other volatiles. Instead of fire-retardant treatment fire retardant paints can be used too. This study showed stages of establishing fire requirements of wooden roof structures by two examples.

In this study, two calculations were performed for two different house types, a family house, and an apartment building, to compare the difference between normal load dimensioning and fire load dimensioning. In the fire load dimensioning method, two different times were considered - R30 and R60 load capacity. When calculating the normal load dimensioning, it has been shown that an unprotected truss has no fire resistance, and that the truss has a fire resistance, with respect to bearing capacity, which corresponds to R0, which means that it must be protected for the required time.