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Fire Test Standards

 

 

Standard Title Status UK Replacement Title
Fire Test Standards

BS 4066-1






 

Tests on electric cables under fire conditions. Method of test on a single vertical insulated wire or cable

 

Withdrawn 1999
(initially replaced by BS EN 50265-2-1)

 

 BS EN 60332-1-2






 		 Tests on electric and optical fibre cables under fire conditions – Part 1-2: Test for vertical flame propagation for a single insulated wire or cables – Procedure for 1 kW pre-mixed flame

BS EN 50265-2-1











 
Common test methods for cables under fire conditions – Test for resistance to vertical flame propagation for a single insulated conductor or cable Part 2-1: Procedures – 1 kW pre-mixed flame
Withdrawn 2004












 		    

BS 4066-2







 

 Tests on electric cables under fire
conditions. Method of test on a single small vertical insulated wire or
cable


 

Withdrawn 1999
(initially replaced by BS EN 50265-2-2)


 

BS EN 60332-2-2






 

 Tests on electric and optical fibre cables
under fire conditions – Part 2-2: Test for vertical flame propagation for a
single small insulated wire or cable – Procedure for diffusion flame

BS EN 50265-2-2








 

 Common test methods for cables under fire
conditions – Test for resistance to vertical flame propagation for a single
insulated conductor or cable Part 2-2: Procedures – Diffusion flame		 Withdrawn 2004









 


 		  

BS 4066-3




 

 Tests on electric cables under fire
conditions. Tests on bunched wires or cables

 		 Withdrawn 2001




 		 BS EN 50266
(6 Parts)




 

Common test methods for cables under fire
conditions – Test for vertical flame spread of vertically-mounted bunched wires or cables
BS 6425-1













 
Tests on gases evolved during the combustion
of materials from cables.
Method for Determination of amount of halogen acid gas evolved during combustion of polymeric material taken from cables
Withdrawn 1999












 
BS EN 50267-1 & BS EN 50267-2-1









 

Common test methods for cables under fire
conditions. Tests on gases evolved during combustion of materials from cables
Part 1: ApparatusPart 2: Procedures Section 1: Determination of the amount of halogen acid gas



 

BS 6425-2













 
Tests on gases evolved during the combustion
of materials from cables.
Determination of degree of acidity (corrosivity) of gases by measuring pH and conductivity



 

Withdrawn 1999












 

BS EN 50267-1 &; BS EN 50267-2-3











 

Common test methods for cables under fire
conditions. Tests on gases evolved during combustion of materials from cables.
Part 1: ApparatusPart 2: Procedures Section 3: Determination of degree of acidity of gases
for cables by determination of the weighted average of pH and conductivity
BS 7622-1







 		 Measurement of smoke density of electric
cables burning under defined conditions. Test apparatus

 		 Withdrawn 2000 (initially replaced by BSEN 50268-1)



 		 BS EN 61034-1







 

Measurement of smoke density of cables
burning under defined conditions –
Part 1: Test apparatus


 

BS EN 50268-1






 

 Common test methods for cables under fire
conditions –
Measurement of smoke density of cables burning under defined conditions.
Part 1: Apparatus
Withdrawn 2005






 





 		  

 

BS 7622-2





 

 Measurement of smoke density of electric
cables burning under defined conditions. Test procedure and requirements.		 Withdrawn 2000 (initially replaced by BS EN 50268-2)


 		 BS EN 61034-2






 

Measurement of smoke density of cables burning under defined conditions Part 2: Test procedure and requirements
 

BS EN 50268-2







 

 Common test methods for cables under fire
conditions – Measurement of smoke density of cables burning under defined conditions. Part 2: Procedure
 		 Withdrawn 2005








 








 		  

BS 8434-1








 

 Methods of test for assessment of the fire integrity of electric cables -Part 1 Test for unprotected small cables for use in emergency circuits BS EN 50200 with the addition of water spray Withdrawn 2009








 
BS EN 50200:2006






 

Method of test for resistance to fire of unprotected small cables for use in emergency circuits




 

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