ASTM Int'l Standard to Provide Fire Test Response for Low Combustible Materials - ASTM WK16997
June 30, 2008 // Published as a news service by IHS
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Proposed ASTM International standard ASTM WK16997 - Test Method for Determining the Heat Release of Materials of Low Combustibility Using a Bench Scale Oxygen Consumption Calorimeter will be used as a fire response test for products and materials that are difficult to ignite and have relatively low rates of heat release.
According to Thomas Fritz, retired corporate manager for product fire performance, Armstrong World Industries and immediate past chair of Committee E05, ASTM WK16997 uses a cone calorimeter, as described in ASTM E 1354 - Test Method for Heat and Visible Smoke Release Rates for Materials and Products Using an Oxygen Consumption Calorimeter, for measuring materials that have low or very limited combustibility.
"The limited amounts of combustibles in the test material result in low output parameters such as rate of heat release and total heat release, two of the primary properties the cone calorimeter is designed to measure," said Fritz.
Fritz said that the proposed standard incorporates some revisions to the cone calorimeter that are designed to improve the capability of measurements at low levels of heat release.
The proposed standard will be useful to researchers interested in improved fire retardant systems, regulators and anyone who is attempting to measure heat release at the low end of the scale.
The proposed standard is being developed by ASTM International Subcommittee E05.23 on Combustibility, part of Committee E05 on Fire Standards.
Source: ASTM International.