Reactiontofiretestsfor buildingproducts-Building products excluding floorings exposedtothethermalattack by a single burning item
National foreword
BSI 2010
ISBN 978 0 580 68815 7
ICS 13.220.50; 91.060.01; 91.100.01
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This British Standard is the UK implementation of EN 13823:2010. Itsupersedes BS EN 13823:2002 which is withdrawn.
The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted to Technical Committee FSH/21/7 Reaction to fire tests - Large and intermediatescale tests.
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This British Standard was published under the authority of theStandards Policy and Strategy Committee on 31 October 2010.
EN13823
Supersedes EN 13823:2002
English Version
Reactiontofiretestsforbuildingproducts-Buildingproducts excludingflooringsexposedtothethermalattackbyasingle burningitem
Prifungen zum Brandverhalten von Bauprodukten -brennenden Gegenstand fur Bauprodukte mit Ausnahme von Bodenbeligen
Essais de nreaction au feu des produits de construction -sol exposes a une sollitation thermique provoquee par un Produits de construction a Iexclusion des revetements de objet isole en feu
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Contents
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Foreword. .4Introduction.1 Scope.. ...2 Normative references. .....3 Terms and definitions.. ..64 4.1 Test facility General. .74.2 4.3 Test room.. Materials. .74.4 Test apparatus. 104.5 4.6 Smoke exhaust system. General measurement section equipment 124.7 Other general equipment. .135 5.1 Dimensions of specimen... Test specimen. 145.2.1 5.2 Mounting as in end use application. Mounting of specimen. 145.2.2 Standardmounting. Installation of the specimen wings in the trolley... 145.3 5.4 Number of specimens.. ...176 Conditioning. ...1.77 Principle ... 1.78 8.1 Test procedure. General. .188.2 8.3 Testing operations... Visual observation and manual recording of data .188.3.1 General.. .198.3.3 8.3.2 Lateral flame spread on the long wing - Pre-test conditions....8.3.4 8.3.5 Flaming particles or droplets... End of test conditions. 218.4 8.3.6 Automated recording of dat.... Recorded events 21 218.5 Early termination of test. 229 Expression of results.. 2210 Test report 22Annex A (normative) Calculation procedures. A.1 General. 24 24A.1.2 A.1.1 General remarks. Calculations to beperformed on the test data 24 25A.1.3 Calculations to be performed on calibration data. 25A.1.4 A.2 Synchronization of data Standard data set. 25 25A.3 A.3.1 Temperature readings. Checking equipment response.... 27 27A.3.2 A.3.3 Drift in gas concentration measurement.. Drift in light attenuation measurement... 27 27
A.4 Exposure period. 28A.5 A.5.1 no Calculation of heat release rate (HRR). 28 28A.5.2 A.5.3 Calculation ofTHR(f andTHRg Calculation of FIGRAo m and FIGRAs u (fire growth rate indices). 31A.6 Smoke production..... 33A.6.2 A.6.1 Calculation of smoke production rate (SPR) Calculation of TSP(f) andTSPeot........ 33 36A.6.3 A.7 Calculation of SMOGRA (smoke growth rate index). Calculations for calibrations- Propane heat release..Annex B (informative)Precision of test method.B.1 B.2 General remarks and results ..... Calculation of test results..... 38B.3 B.4 Statistical results Statistical analysis. ...39 39Annex C(normative) Calibration procedures.. 43C.1 Procedures for separate pieces of equipment. General.. 43C.1.1 C.1.2 Oxygen analyser adjustment. 43 43C.1.3 C.1.4 Carbon dioxide analyser adjustment. Oxygen analyser output noise and drift. 43 44C.1.5 C.1.6 Light system calibration.... Check of propane mass flow controller. 44 44C.2 Burner switch response time.. System response calibrations. 45C.2.1 C.2.2 Burner heat output step calibration... 47 45C.2.3 C.2.4 Heptane calibration.. Velocityprofilefactorkt.. 50 52C.2.5 Flow factor k .54Annex D (informative) Calibration procedures. D.1 Procedures for separate pieces of equipment.. 55D.1.1 D.1.2 Oxygen analyser adjustment. General. 55D.1.3 Check of propane mass flow controller.. Carbon dioxide analyser adjustment. 55D.1.4 D.1.5 Optical filter check. 55D.2 D.2.1 Check of the thermal attack on the specimens General.. 57D.2.2 ProcedureAnnex E (normative) Design drawings... ...58Annex F (informative) Data file format. ..96 ..93Bibliography .... Annex G (informative) Record sheet .. ...97
