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In order to facilitate interoperability of railway rolling stock within Europe, railway rolling stock is constructed to meet the performances specified in several EN standards. The EN 45545 suite describes these requirements, and EN 45545-2 lists all the fire performance requirements and test methods that products must meet to be used in various rolling stock applications — covering structural products including flooring, seats, cables and non-listed items.
Almost all the fire tests used were developed by other specialist fire test committees. The performance of all products is determined with respect to flame spread and the amounts of heat, smoke and toxic fumes produced.
12 matching test methods. Each card opens the full test method page.
EN ISO 11925-2
Determines the ignitability of building products in the vertical orientation when subjected to impingement of a standard small flame.
EN ISO 9239-1
Measures the critical radiant flux of horizontally mounted floor covering systems exposed to a flaming ignition source in a graded radiant heat environment.
EN IEC 60332-3-10 · EN IEC 60332-3-24
Assesses vertical flame spread of vertically mounted bunched wires or cables, electrical or optical, under defined conditions.
EN 60332-1-2
Evaluates the flame spread of a single vertical insulated conductor, cable or optical fibre cable exposed to a 1 kW pre-mixed flame.
EN 61034-2
Measures smoke emission when electric cables are burned under defined conditions in the 3 Metre Cube.
NF X 70-100
Tube furnace toxicity test used to determine the Conventional Index of Toxicity (CIT) for non-listed railway products.
ISO 5658-2
Measures the lateral spread of flame along the surface of a vertically orientated specimen subject to radiated heat in the presence of a pilot flame.
ISO 5660-1 · ASTM E1354
The most significant bench-scale instrument in fire testing — measures heat release, smoke production and mass loss under preset fire conditions.
BS EN ISO 5659-2 · ASTM E662
Determines the specific optical density of smoke generated by solid materials and assemblies in a closed chamber.
ISO 19702 · EN 17084
Fourier-transform infrared analysis of toxic fire effluents — the method chosen by ISO, EN and IMO committees for measuring toxic species.
BS EN ISO 4589-2 · ASTM D2863
Measures the minimum percentage of oxygen in a test atmosphere required to marginally support combustion.
ISO 9705-2
Full-scale calorimetry of complete seat assemblies, used to determine MARHE according to EN 45545-2.
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