Fire can kill, maim and injure people. It can also seriously damage buildings, businesses and lives. Products and materials all react to fire in different ways and we at SMART understand this

Reaction to Fire tests are used to evaluate the contribution of a material to fire growth. The tests tend to be smaller in scale and are used on specific components or materials. The test specimens are representatives of items that maybe exposed to a growing fire: room contents, furniture, wall and ceiling linings, etc. Reaction to fire tests are commonly called up in codes and regulations in both the building and transport sectors.
Smart service can undertake a full range of reaction-to-fire tests to meet both the national and international needs.

Fire test Standards list

reaction to fire tests

• BS 6853 – Code Of Practice For Fire Precautions In The Design And Construction Of Passenger Carrying Trains.
• London Underground Limited (LUL), Category: CAT1, Number: 2-01001-002, Issue Number : A1
• EN 45545-2 – Requirements For Fire Behaviour Of Materials And Components.
• NF F 16-101 – Railway Rolling-Stock, Fire Behaviour, Choice Of Materials.

Flammability / Combustibility:

• BS 476: Part 7 – Surface Spread of Flame
• BS 476: Part 6 – Fire Propagation 
• BS ISO 9239-1 – Horizontal surface spread of flame on floor-coverings  
• EN ISO 4589-3: Annex A – Temperature Index / Flammability Temperature test
• ISO 4589-2 – Determination of burning behaviour by oxygen index.  
• BS 476: Part 4 – Non-Combustibility test 
• EN 13501-1 – Fire classification of construction products and building elements. Classification using test data from the following tests:
  • EN ISO 11925-2 – Ignitability of building products subjected to direct impingement of flame. Single-flame source test
  • EN 13823 – Building products excluding floorings exposed to the thermal attack by a single burning item
  • EN ISO 9239-1 – Horizontal surface spread of flame on floor-covering systems. Determination of the burning behaviour using a radiant heat source
  • EN ISO 1716 – Determination of the heat of combustion
  • EN ISO 1182 – Non-combustibility test
• NF P 92-501 – Radiation test used for rigid materials, or for materials on rigid substrates (flooring and finishes) of all thicknesses, and for flexible materials thicker that 5 mm
• NF P 92-503 – Electrical burner test used for flexible materials
• NF P 92-504 – Flame persistence test and speed of the spread of flame
• NF P 92-505 – Test used for thermal melting materials. Dripping test
• ISO 5658-2 – Lateral flame spread on building products in vertical configuration
• ISO 5660-1 – Method for measuring the rate of heat release of products
• EN 60695-2-1/0 – Glow-wire test method

Toxic Fume Emission:

• BS 6853: 1999: Annex B.1 / NF X 70-100 – Mass based toxicity test
• BS 6853: 1999: Annex B.2 – Area based toxicity test
• EN 45545-2: Annex D – Test protocol for analysis of toxic gase

Smoke Emission:

• BS 6853: 1999: Annex D.8.3, D.8.4, D.8.5, D.8.6 & D.8.7 – Three metre cube test
• NF X 10-702 – Determination of the opacity of the fumes in an atmosphere without air renewal
• EN 50268-1 - Measurement of smoke density of cables burning under defined conditions
• ISO 5659-2 – Smoke generation. Determination of optical density by a single chamber test

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