EN 61340-4-1:2004/A1:2015

Electrostatics - Part 4-1: Standard test methods for specific applications - Electrical resistance of floor coverings and installed floors

Elektrostatik - Teil 4-1: Standard-Prüfverfahren für spezielle Anwendungen - Elektrischer Widerstand von Bodenbelägen und verlegten Fußböden

Electrostatique - Partie 4-1: Méthodes d'essai normalisées pour des applications spécifiques - Résistance électrique des revêtements de sol et des sols finis

Elektrostatika - 4-1. del: Standardne preskusne metode za posebno uporabo - Električna upornost talnih oblog in položenih tal - Dopolnilo A1

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 18-Jun-2015
• Withdrawal Date: 02-Jun-2018
• ICS: 17.220.99 - Other standards related to electricity and magnetism
• ICS: 59.080.60 - Textile floor coverings
• Technical Committee: CLC/SR 101 - Electrostatics
• Drafting Committee: IEC/TC 101 - IEC_TC_101
• Current Stage: 6060 - Document made available - Publishing
• Start Date: 19-Jun-2015
• Completion Date: 19-Jun-2015
• Ref Project: SIST EN 61340-4-1:2004/A1:2015 - Electrostatics - Part 4-1: Standard test methods for specific applications - Electrical resistance of floor coverings and installed floors

Relations

• Amends: EN 61340-4-1:2004 - Electrostatics - Part 4-1: Standard test methods for specific applications - Electrical resistance of floor coverings and installed floors
• Effective Date: 29-Jan-2023

Overview

EN 61340-4-1:2004/A1:2015 (CLC / IEC 61340-4-1 amendment) is a European adoption of an IEC amendment that specifies standard test methods for measuring the electrical resistance of floor coverings and installed floors used in electrostatic discharge (ESD) control. The amendment (A1:2015) updates test definitions, measuring fixtures and sampling procedures to improve repeatability and relevance for laboratory and on-site evaluations.

Key Topics

• Scope and safety note: the amendment adds a note that, while the standard does not itself set personal safety requirements, users must still comply with local health and safety regulations when installing and testing floors.
• Definition - Vertical resistance: clarified as the resistance measured between a counter‑electrode on the back of the specimen and a single electrode placed on the use surface.
• Support plates and insulating plates:
  • Requirements updated for support plates used in point‑to‑point and resistance‑to‑ground tests (plates equal in area to test specimens, rigid, insulating with high vertical resistance).
  • Insulating plate dimensions and construction specified for vertical resistance tests (e.g., a flat plate 640 mm ±10 mm square, thickness 5 mm ±1 mm) and for other measurements (e.g., 1300 mm ±10 mm by 600 mm ±10 mm, thickness 5 mm ±1 mm).
• Sampling for laboratory evaluations: guidance for combining tiles to form specimens, joining edges per manufacturer instructions, including measurements across at least one joint, attaching groundable points and respecting minimum distances for groundable points.
• Resistance to ground testing frequency: measurement quantity guidance-representative sampling with a minimum of one measurement per 100 m and at least six measurements in total.
• Measuring electrodes: provides example electrode designs suitable for the required measurements.

Applications

This standard is used by:

• Flooring manufacturers for product development and quality control of ESD-capable floor coverings.
• Independent test laboratories performing laboratory evaluations and acceptance testing of flooring and installed floors.
• ESD control engineers and facility managers specifying and verifying floor performance in electronics manufacturing, cleanrooms, healthcare, and other environments sensitive to static discharge.
• Specifiers and procurement teams evaluating compliance of installed floors against recognized test methods.

Practical benefits include consistent, repeatable measurement procedures for evaluating electrical resistance, informed material selection, and reliable acceptance testing of installed flooring systems for ESD control.

Related standards

• Part of the IEC/EN 61340 series (electrostatics/ESD); this document is the A1 amendment to EN 61340-4-1:2004 and aligns with IEC/TC 101 work on electrostatics. National adoption is managed by CENELEC members.

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-september-2015
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Electrostatics - Part 4-1: Standard test methods for specific applications - Electrical
resistance of floor coverings and installed floors
Elektrostatik - Teil 4-1: Standard-Prüfverfahren für spezielle Anwendungen - Elektrischer
Widerstand von Bodenbelägen und verlegten Fußböden
Electrostatique - Partie 4-1: Méthodes d'essai normalisées pour des applications
spécifiques - Résistance électrique des revêtements de sol et des sols finis
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 61340-4-1:2004/A1:2015
ICS:
17.220.99 Drugi standardi v zvezi z Other standards related to
elektriko in magnetizmom electricity and magnetism
59.080.60 Tekstilne talne obloge Textile floor coverings
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 61340-4-1:2004/A1

NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
June 2015
ICS 17.220.99; 59.080.60
English Version
Electrostatics - Part 4-1: Standard test methods for specific
applications - Electrical resistance of floor coverings and
installed floors
(IEC 61340-4-1:2003/A1:2015)
Electrostatique - Partie 4-1: Méthodes d'essai normalisées Elektrostatik - Teil 4-1: Standard-Prüfverfahren für spezielle
pour des applications spécifiques - Résistance électrique Anwendungen - Elektrischer Widerstand von Bodenbelägen
des revêtements de sol et des sols finis und verlegten Fußböden
(IEC 61340-4-1:2003/A1:2015) (IEC 61340-4-1:2003/A1:2015)
This amendment A1 modifies the European Standard EN 61340-4-1:2004; it was approved by CENELEC on 2015-06-03. CENELEC
members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this amendment the
status of a national standard without any alteration.
Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the CEN-CENELEC
Management Centre or to any CENELEC member.
This amendment exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the
responsibility of a CENELEC member into its own language and notified to the CEN-CENELEC Management Centre has the same status as
the official versions.
CENELEC members are the national electrotechnical committees of Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic,
Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia,
Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland,
Turkey and the United Kingdom.

European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
Comité Européen de Normalisation Electrotechnique
Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung
CEN-CENELEC Management Centre: Avenue Marnix 17, B-1000 Brussels
© 2015 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.
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European foreword
The text of document 101/461/FDIS, future IEC 61340-4-1:2003/A1, prepared by IEC/TC 101
"Electrostatics" was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as
The following dates are fixed:
(dop) 2016-03-03
• latest date by which the document has to be implemented at
national level by publication of an identical national
standard or by endorsement
• latest date by which the national standards conflicting with (dow) 2018-06-03
the document have to be withdrawn

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CENELEC [and/or CEN] shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such
patent rights.
Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 61340-4-1:2003/A1:2014 was approved by CENELEC as a
European Standard without any modification.
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