Standard Test Method for Critical Radiant Flux of Floor-Covering Systems Using a Radiant Heat Energy Source

Importancia y uso:

5.1 This fire test response standard is designed to provide a basis for estimating one aspect of the fire exposure behavior of a floor-covering system installed in a building corridor. The test environment is intended to simulate conditions that have been observed and defined in full scale corridor experiments.

5.2 The test is intended to be suitable for regulatory statutes, specification acceptance, design purposes, or development and research.

5.3 The fundamental assumption inherent in the test is that critical radiant flux is one measure of the sensitivity to flame spread of floor-covering systems in a building corridor.

5.4 The test is applicable to floor-covering system specimens that follow or simulate accepted installation practice. Tests on the individual elements of a floor system are of limited value and not valid for evaluation of the flooring system.

5.5 In this procedure, the specimens are subjected to one or more specific sets of laboratory test conditions. If different test conditions are substituted or the end-use conditions are changed, it is not always possible by or from this test method to predict changes in the fire-test-response characteristics measured. Therefore, the results are valid only for the fire test exposure conditions described in this procedure.

Subcomité:

E05.22

Referida por:

C1486-18R23, E1321-18, E1546-24, E0970-23, E0176-24A, E1317-19, D8157-19, E3020-22, F3214-23, F3214-23, E2280-25, F2970-22, F2970-22, E2061-23, D6719-22E01, D5144-08R21, F1918-21

Volúmen:

04.07

Número ICS:

97.150 (Non-textile floor coverings)

Palabras clave:

critical radiant flux; fire; floor-covering systems; radiant panel ;