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Compos. Sci."],"abstract":"<jats:p>This paper presents research concerning simulating the thermal firebrand effect due to its accumulation in exterior construction wall elements by developing a 3D finite element model (FEM) via ABAQUS (2022) software to analyze the exterior walls commonly applied to the exterior of dwellings in southern Europe and South America. A non-linear thermal transient analysis is undertaken, in which the results are directly compared with a previous experimental campaign, in which firebrands are deposited on localized surfaces of construction wall specimens, and the temperature is measured in the several layers of the construction elements. The walls are composite elements, made of different layer combinations of masonry brick and wood, varying the type of thermal insulation in the internal core from cork to classical rigid rockwool and polystyrene foam (XPS). It can be summarized from the results that the FEM effectively simulates the thermal response of brick, normal wood (NW), and cross-laminated timber (CLT) walls when insulated with materials like cork or rockwool coated with mortar against firebrand accumulation. However, the lack of accounting for uncontrolled combustion leads to inconsistent results. Additionally, for walls using XPS as the insulation material, the model requires further refinement to accurately simulate the melting phenomenon and its thermal impact.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcs9040151","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,24]],"date-time":"2025-03-24T04:48:18Z","timestamp":1742791698000},"page":"151","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Numerical Simulation of the Thermal Effect of Firebrand Deposition on External Composite Walls"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"9","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-7779-3761","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Mohamed","family":"Zitouni","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"CERIS, IST-ID (Associa\u00e7\u00e3o do Instituto Superior T\u00e9cnico para a Investiga\u00e7\u00e3o e Desenvolvimento), 1000-043 Lisbon, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-0683-3252","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Antonio Renato Albuquerque","family":"Bicelli","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CERIS, Instituto Superior T\u00e9cnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal"}]},{"given":"M\u00e1rio Rui Tiago","family":"Arruda","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"LNEC (Laborat\u00f3rio Nacional de Engenharia Civil), 1700-066 Lisbon, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Fernando","family":"Branco","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto Superior T\u00e9cnico, Universidade de Lisboa, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2025,3,22]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"3601","DOI":"10.5194\/essd-16-3601-2024","article-title":"State of Wildfires 2023\u20132024","volume":"16","author":"Jones","year":"2024","journal-title":"Earth Syst. 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