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FIRE RESISTANCE

 Take Fire Safety Seriously with SPS®

Across multiple industries

With over twenty years of fire safety development and testing expertise, SPS Technology focuses on innovative and unique design solutions ensuring excellent fire safety: protecting assets and occupants to the highest standards.

SPS structural panels are fire-rated for up to two hours protection to national and international codes in the building, maritime and offshore environments.

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The image shows a factory setting where structural SPS panels are undergoing fire testing with various wires and metal structures covering the plate.

(a) During 2-hour fire test.

Proven Fire Protection with SPS Panels

Since 1998, SPS panels have been subjected to extensive fire safety testing at test facilities around the world, with over 170 tests completed to date. Testing has been undertaken at accredited national facilities worldwide – in the US, Australia, China, Canada and Europe –  to maritime, offshore and building regulations.

The SPS core material is a solid (non-foamed) elastomer, Elastocore 9010/102/S®, developed by BASF specifically for SPS. The core is a good insulator, keeping the topside steel faceplate cool, protecting property, and allowing occupants to evacuate and firefighters to work safely.

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SPS has been approved for use in fire-rated structures by maritime and building regulatory bodies worldwide.

Fire Containment by Design

SPS panels provide an effective fire-resistant barrier.  SPS will contain a fire and prevent it from spreading to adjacent compartments, with the elastomer core providing thermal insulation. The period of fire resistance is dependent on the core thickness. For example, a standard 25mm solid core arrangement in an ‘unprotected’ state will provide one hour of full protection against a standard cellulosic test fire to BS EN 1365-2.

Further periods of fire resistance can be achieved either by designing a greater core depth or by the addition of passive fire-rated ‘protective’ materials such as fire board, cementitious spray, or intumescent coatings. We’ve even tested thick epoxy coatings on SPS panels to great success on the FSPO Glen Lyon’s Quad 204 Escape Tunnel!

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SPS panel undergoing fire resistance testing

(b) fire resistance testing of SPS panel

Finite Element analysis of SPS panel fire resistance

(c) Finite Element Analysis of SPS

Finite Element Analysis for fire assessment of SPS

With so many unique applications of SPS over the last 25 years, our engineering team has decades of experience modelling real-fire scenarios. We have tested:

  • cellulosic fires for building construction,
  • hydrocarbon fires for offshore oil and gas construction,
  • and jet fires for oil and gas construction, as well as for launch towers.

 

Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is a powerful computer modelling method used to simulate and analyse the behaviour of structures under various conditions.  SPS Technology has developed expertise in modelling the response of SPS structures to any fire threat.  Models have been calibrated and verified using actual fire test results, which gives an accurate predictive tool recognised/accepted by various regulatory bodies.

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