SIST EN 60695-1-10:2017

Fire hazard testing - Part 1-10: Guidance for assessing the fire hazard of electrotechnical products - General guidelines (IEC 60695-1-10:2016)

IEC 60695-1-10:2009 provides general guidance on how to reduce to acceptable levels the risk of fire and the potential effects of fires involving electrotechnical products. It also describes the relationship between fire risk and the potential effects of fire, it also emphasises the importance of the scenario approach to fire hazard and risk assessment and discusses criteria intended to ensure the development of technically sound hazard-based fire test methods. It has the status of a basic safety publication in accordance with IEC Guide 104 and ISO/IEC Guide 51.

Prüfungen zur Beurteilung der Brandgefahr - Teil 1-10: Anleitung zur Beurteilung der Brandgefahr von elektrotechnischen Erzeugnissen - Allgemeiner Leitfaden (IEC 60695-1-10:2016)

Essais relatifs aux risques du feu - Partie 1-10: Guide pour l'évaluation des risques du feu des produits électrotechniques - Lignes directrices générales (IEC 60695-1-10:2016)

La CEI 60695-1-10:2009 fournit des lignes directrices générales sur la manière de réduire à des niveaux acceptables le risque d'incendie et les effets potentiels des incendies impliquant des produits électrotechniques. Elle décrit la relation entre le risque d'incendie et les effets potentiels des incendies. Elle souligne l'importance de l'approche par scénario pour l'évaluation des dangers du feu et des risques d'incendie. Elle débat également des critères visant à assurer le développement de méthodes d'essai au feu basées sur les dangers qui soient techniquement solides. La présente publication fondamentale de sécurité est destinée aux comités d'études dans le cadre de l'élaboration de normes conformes aux principes exposés dans le Guide CEI 104 et le Guide ISO/CEI 51.

Preskušanje požarne ogroženosti - 1-10. del: Navodilo za ocenjevanje požarne varnosti elektrotehniških izdelkov - Splošne smernice (IEC 60695-1-10:2016)

Standard IEC 60695-1-10:2009 podaja splošne smernice za zmanjševanje nevarnosti požara in morebitnih vplivov požarov pri elektrotehniških izdelkih na sprejemljivo raven. Opisuje tudi razmerje med nevarnostjo in morebitnimi vplivi požara, poudarja pomembnost pristopa na temelju predvidenih potekov dogodkov glede nevarnosti požara in ocenjevanja tveganja ter obravnava merila, ki zagotavljajo razvoj tehnično ustreznih metod za preskušanje požarne ogroženosti. Ta standard ima status osnovne varnostne publikacije v skladu z vodili IEC 104 in ISO/IEC 51.

General Information

• Status: Published
• Publication Date: 13-Mar-2017
• ICS: 13.220.40 - Ignitability and burning behaviour of materials and products
• ICS: 29.020 - Electrical engineering in general
• Technical Committee: I09 - Imaginarni 09
• Current Stage: 6060 - National Implementation/Publication (Adopted Project)
• Start Date: 09-Mar-2017
• Due Date: 14-May-2017
• Completion Date: 14-Mar-2017
• Ref Project: EN 60695-1-10:2017 - Fire hazard testing - Part 1-10: Guidance for assessing the fire hazard of electrotechnical products - General guidelines

Relations

• Replaces: SIST EN 60695-1-10:2010 - Fire hazard testing - Part 1-10: Guidance for assessing the fire hazard of electrotechnical products - General guidelines (IEC 60695-1-10:2009)
• Effective Date: 07-Mar-2017

Standards Content (Sample)

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
SIST EN 60695-1-10:2017
01-maj-2017
1DGRPHãþD
SIST EN 60695-1-10:2010
Preskušanje požarne ogroženosti - 1-10. del: Navodilo za ocenjevanje požarne
varnosti elektrotehniških izdelkov - Splošne smernice (IEC 60695-1-10:2016)
Fire hazard testing - Part 1-10: Guidance for assessing the fire hazard of electrotechnical
products - General guidelines (IEC 60695-1-10:2016)
Prüfungen zur Beurteilung der Brandgefahr - Teil 1-10: Anleitung zur Beurteilung der
Brandgefahr von elektrotechnischen Erzeugnissen - Allgemeiner Leitfaden (IEC 60695-1
-10:2016)
Essais relatifs aux risques du feu - Partie 1-10: Guide pour l'évaluation des risques du
feu des produits électrotechniques - Lignes directrices générales (IEC 60695-1-10:2016)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 60695-1-10:2017
ICS:
13.220.40 Sposobnost vžiga in Ignitability and burning
obnašanje materialov in behaviour of materials and
proizvodov pri gorenju products
29.020 Elektrotehnika na splošno Electrical engineering in
general
SIST EN 60695-1-10:2017 en
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

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EUROPEAN STANDARD EN 60695-1-10

NORME EUROPÉENNE

EUROPÄISCHE NORM
March 2017
ICS 13.220.40; 29.020 Supersedes EN 60695-1-10:2010
English Version
Fire hazard testing - Part 1-10: Guidance for assessing the fire
hazard of electrotechnical products - General guidelines
(IEC 60695-1-10:2016)
Essais relatifs aux risques du feu - Partie 1-10: Lignes Prüfungen zur Beurteilung der Brandgefahr -
directrices pour l'évaluation des risques du feu des produits Teil 1-10: Anleitung zur Beurteilung der Brandgefahr von
électrotechniques - Lignes directrices générales elektrotechnischen Erzeugnissen - Allgemeiner Leitfaden
(IEC 60695-1-10:2016) (IEC 60695-1-10:2016)
This European Standard was approved by CENELEC on 2016-12-23. CENELEC members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC
Internal Regulations which stipulate the conditions for giving this European Standard 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 European Standard 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, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,
Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.


European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization
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Europäisches Komitee für Elektrotechnische Normung
CEN-CENELEC Management Centre: Avenue Marnix 17, B-1000 Brussels
© 2017 CENELEC All rights of exploitation in any form and by any means reserved worldwide for CENELEC Members.
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EN 60695-1-10:2017
European foreword
The text of document 89/1341/FDIS, future edition 2 of IEC 60695-1-10, prepared by IEC/TC 89 "Fire
hazard testing" was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as
EN 60695-1-10:2017.
The following dates are fixed:
(dop) 2017-09-23
• latest date by which the document has to be implemented at
national level by publication of an identical national
standard or by endorsement
(dow) 2019-12-23
• latest date by which the national standards conflicting with
the document have to be withdrawn

This document supersedes EN 60695-1-10:2010.
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 60695-1-10:2016 was approved by CENELEC as a
European Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standards indicated:
IEC 60950-1 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60950-1.
IEC 60065 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60065.
IEC 60332-1-2 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60332-1-2.
IEC 62368-1 NOTE Harmonized as EN 62368-1.
IEC 60695-1 NOTE Harmonized in EN 60695-1 series.
IEC 60695-2 NOTE Harmonized in EN 60695-2 series.
IEC 60695-5 NOTE Harmonized in EN 60695-5 series.
IEC 60695-6 NOTE Harmonized in EN 60695-6 series.
IEC 60695-7 NOTE Harmonized in EN 60695-7 series.
IEC 60695-8 NOTE Harmonized in EN 60695-8 series.
IEC 60695-9 NOTE Harmonized in EN 60695-9 series.
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EN 60695-1-10:2017
IEC 60695-10 NOTE Harmonized in EN 60695-10 series.
IEC 60695-11 NOTE Harmonized in EN 60695-11 series.
IEC 60695-1-20 NOTE Harmonized as EN 60695-1-20.
IEC/TS 62441 NOTE Harmonized as CLC/TS 62441.
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EN 60695-1-10:2017
Annex ZA
(normative)

Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and are
indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated
references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
NOTE 1 When an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod),
the relevant EN/HD applies.
NOTE 2 Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is
available here: www.cenelec.eu.

Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
IEC 60079-0 -  Explosive atmospheres - Part 0: EN 60079-0 -
Equipment - General requirements
IEC 60695-1-11 -  Fire hazard testing - Part 1-11: EN 60695-1-11 -
Guidance for assessing the fire hazard
of electrotechnical products - Fire
hazard assessment
IEC 60695-1-12 -  Fire hazard testing - Part 1-12: - -
Guidance for assessing the fire hazard
of electrotechnical products - Fire safety
engineering
IEC 60695-1-30 -  Fire hazard testing - Part 1-30: EN 60695-1-30 -
Guidance for assessing the fire hazard
of electrotechnical products -
Preselection testing process - General
guidelines
IEC 60695-4 2012 Fire hazard testing - Part 4: Terminology EN 60695-4 2012
concerning fire tests for electrotechnical
products
IEC Guide 104 -  The preparation of safety publications - -
and the use of basic safety publications
and group safety publications
ISO/IEC Guide 51 -  Safety aspects - Guidelines for their - -
inclusion in standards
ISO 13943 2008 Fire safety - Vocabulary EN ISO 13943 2010

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 3
INTRODUCTION . 5
1 Scope . 6
2 Normative references . 6
3 Terms and definitions . 7
4 Fire hazards associated with electrotechnical products . 9
5 Fundamentals of fire hazard testing . 10
5.1 Objectives . 10
5.2 Fire hazard and fire risk . 10
5.2.1 Fire hazard . 10
5.2.2 Fire risk . 12
5.3 Fire scenarios . 13
5.4 Fire-safety engineering . 15
5.5 Fire hazard assessment . 15
6 Types of fire test . 15
6.1 General . 15
6.2 Quantitative and qualitative groups of fire tests . 15
6.2.1 Quantitative fire tests . 15
6.2.2 Qualitative fire tests . 16
6.3 Types of fire tests . 16
6.3.1 Fire simulation test . 16
6.3.2 Fire resistance tests . 16
6.3.3 Tests with regard to reaction to fire . 16
6.3.4 Preselection fire tests . 16
6.3.5 Basic property tests . 17
7 Appropriate use of qualitative fire tests . 17
8 Preparation of requirements and test specifications . 17
9 Common ignition sources . 18
10 Reference documents of TC 89 . 18
Annex A (informative) The power output of ignition sources . 19
A.1 General . 19
A.2 Some common electrical and non-electrical ignition sources . 19
A.3 Power source classification in IEC 62368-1 [9] . 20
Annex B (informative) Guidance publications and test methods . 21
Bibliography . 23

Table 1 – Common causes of ignition encountered in electrotechnical products . 11
Table 2 – Characteristics of fire stages (from Table 1 in ISO 19706:2011 [22]) . 14
Table A.1 – Examples of ignition sources . 20
Table B.1 – TC 89 guidance publications and test methods . 21

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INTERNATIONAL ELECTROTECHNICAL COMMISSION
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FIRE HAZARD TESTING –

Part 1-10: Guidance for assessing the fire hazard of
electrotechnical products – General guidelines

FOREWORD
1) The International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) is a worldwide organization for standardization comprising
all national electrotechnical committees (IEC National Committees). The object of IEC is to promote
international co-operation on all questions concerning standardization in the electrical and electronic fields. To
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3) IEC Publications have the form of recommendations for international use and are accepted by IEC National
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between any IEC Publication and the corresponding national or regional publication shall be clearly indicated in
the latter.
5) IEC itself does not provide any attestation of conformity. Independent certification bodies provide conformity
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6) All users should ensure that they have the latest edition of this publication.
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8) Attention is drawn to the Normative references cited in this publication. Use of the referenced publications is
indispensable for the correct application of this publication.
9) Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this IEC Publication may be the subject of
patent rights. IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
International Standard IEC 60695-1-10 has been prepared by IEC technical committee 89:
Fire hazard testing.
This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition published in 2009. This edition
constitutes a technical revision.
This edition includes the following significant technical changes with respect to the previous
edition:
a) reference to IEC 60695-1-12;
b) modified Introduction and Scope;
c) updated normative references;
d) updated terms and definitions;
e) modified Table 1;

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f) addition of Table 2;
g) new text in Subclauses 5.2, 5.3 and 5.4;
h) mandatory text in Clause 8;
i) Annex B changed to Annex A, and modified;
j) new Annex B concerning common ignition sources.
The text of this standard is based on the following documents:
FDIS Report on voting
89/1341/FDIS 89/1347/RVD

Full information on the voting for the approval of this International Standard can be found in
the report on voting indicated in the above table.
This document has been drafted in accordance with the ISO/IEC Directives, Part 2.
It has the status of a basic safety publication in accordance with IEC Guide 104 and
ISO/IEC Guide 51.
This standard is to be used in conjunction with IEC 60695-1-11 and IEC 60695-1-12.
A list of all the parts in the IEC 60695 series, under the general title Fire hazard testing, can
be found on the IEC website.
IEC 60695-1 consists of the following parts:
Part 1-10: Guidance for assessing the fire hazard of electrotechnical products – General
guidelines
Part 1-11: Guidance for assessing the fire hazard of electrotechnical products – Fire hazard
assessment
Part 1-12: Guidance for assessing the fire hazard of electrotechnical products – Fire-safety
engineering
Part 1-20: Guidance for assessing the fire hazard of electrotechnical products – Ignitability –
General guidance
Part 1-21: Guidance for assessing the fire hazard of electrotechnical products – Ignitability –
Summary and relevance of test methods
Part 1-30: Guidance for assessing the fire hazard of electrotechnical products – Preselection
testing process – General guidelines
Part 1-40: Guidance for assessing the fire hazard of electrotechnical products – Insulating
liquids
The committee has decided that the contents of this document will remain unchanged until the
stability date indicated on the IEC website under "http://webstore.iec.ch" in the data related to
the specific document. At this date, the document will be
• reconfirmed,
• withdrawn,
• replaced by a revised edition, or
• amended.

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INTRODUCTION
In the design of any electrotechnical product, the risk of fire and the potential hazards
associated with fire need to be considered. In this respect the objective of component, circuit
and equipment design, as well as the choice of materials, is to reduce the risk of fire to a
tolerable level even in the event of reasonably foreseeable (mis)use, malfunction or failure.
This standard, together with its companions, IEC 60695-1-11 and IEC 60695-1-12, provides
guidance on how this is to be accomplished.
The use of compartments with fire-resistant boundaries, and the use of detection and
suppression systems are important methods for the mitigation of fire risk, but are not dealt
with in this standard. Fires involving electrotechnical products can be initiated from external
non-electrical sources. Considerations of this nature are dealt with in an overall fire hazard
assessment.
The aim of the IEC 60695 series of standards is to save lives and property by reducing the
number of fires or reducing the consequences of the fire. This can be accomplished by:
• trying to prevent ignition caused by an electrically energised component part and, in the
event of ignition, to confine any resulting fire within the bounds of the enclosure of the
electrotechnical product;
• trying to minimise flame spread beyond the product’s enclosure and to minimise the
harmful effects of fire effluents including heat, smoke, and toxic or corrosive combustion
products.
Assessing the fire hazard of electrotechnical products is accomplished by performing fire
hazard tests. These tests are divided into two fundamental groups: qualitative fire tests and
quantitative fire tests.
Fire testing of electrotechnical products should, whenever possible, be carried out using
quantitative fire tests having the following characteristics.
a) The test should take into account the circumstances of product use, i.e. contemplated
end-use conditions as well as foreseeable abnormal use. This is because fire conditions
that may be hazardous under one set of circumstances will not necessarily pose the same
threat under a different set.
b) It should be possible to correlate the test results with the harmful effects of fire effluents
referred to above, i.e. the thermal and airborne threats to people and/or property in the
relevant end-use situation. This avoids the creation of artificial, and sometimes distorted,
performance scales with no clear relationship to fire safety.
c) Recognizing that there are usually multiple contributions to the effects of real fires, the
test results should be expressed in well-defined terms and using rational scientific units,
so that the product's contribution to the overall fire effects can be quantitatively assessed
and compared with that of other products’ contributions.
Although quantitative tests are preferred, the characteristics of qualitative fire tests are that
they provide pass/fail and classification results. Under certain circumstances it will be
appropriate to maintain such qualitative test methods or to develop new ones. This part of
IEC 60695-1 establishes the circumstances under which such maintenance or development is
appropriate.

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FIRE HAZARD TESTING –

Part 1-10: Guidance for assessing the fire hazard of
electrotechnical products – General guidelines



1 Scope
This part of IEC 60695-1 provides general guidance with respect to fire hazard testing on how
to reduce to a tolerable level the risk of fire and the potential effects of fires involving
electrotechnical products. It also serves as a signpost standard to the other guidance
publications in the IEC 60695 series.
It does not give guidance on the use of fire-resistant compartment boundaries or on the use of
detection and suppression systems for the mitigation of fire risk.
It describes the relationship between fire risk and the potential effects of fire, and provides
guidance to IEC product committees on the applicability of qualitative and quantitative fire
tests to the fire hazard assessment of electrotechnical products. Details of the calculation of
fire risk are not included in the scope of this document.
It emphasises the importance of the scenario approach to fire hazard and risk assessment
and discusses criteria intended to ensure the development of technically sound hazard-based
fire test methods.
It discusses the different types of fire tests, in particular the nature of qualitative and
quantitative fire tests. It also describes the circumstances under which it is appropriate for
IEC product committees to maintain or develop qualitative fire tests.
This standard is intended as guidance to IEC committees, and is to be used with respect to
their individual applications.
This basic safety publication is intended for use by technical committees in the preparation of
standards in accordance with the principles laid down in IEC Guide 104 and
ISO/IEC Guide 51.
One of the responsibilities of a technical committee is, wherever applicable, to make use of
basic safety publications in the preparation of its publications. The requirements, test
methods or test conditions of this basic safety publication will not apply unless specifically
referred to or included in the relevant publications.
2 Normative references
The following documents, in whole or in part, are normatively referenced in this document and
are indispensable for its application. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any
amendments) applies.
IEC 60079-0, Explosive atmospheres − Part 0: Equipment − General requirements
IEC 60695-1-11, Fire hazard testing – Part 1-11: Guidance for assessing the fire hazard of
electrotechnical products – Fire hazard assessment

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IEC 60695-1-10:2016  IEC 2016 – 7 –
IEC 60695-1-12, Fire hazard testing – Part 1-12: Guidance for assessing the fire hazard of
electrotechnical products – Fire-safety engineering
IEC 60695-1-30, Fire hazard testing – Part 1-30: Guidance for assessing the fire hazard of
1
electrotechnical products – Preselection testing process – General guidelines
IEC 60695-4:2012, Fire hazard testing – Part 4: Terminology concerning fire tests for
electrotechnical products
IEC Guide 104, The preparation of safety publications and the use of basic safety publications
and group safety publications
ISO/IEC Guide 51, Safety aspects – Guidelines for their inclusion in standards
ISO 13943:2008, Fire safety – Vocabulary
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in IEC 60695-4:2012 and
ISO 13943:2008 (some of which are reproduced below), as well as the following, apply.
3.1
fire
〈general〉 process of combustion characterized by the emission of heat and fire effluent and
usually accompanied by smoke, flame, glowing or a combination thereof
Note 1 to entry: In the English language, the term “fire” is used to designate three concepts, two of which, fire
(3.2) and fire (3.3), relate to specific types of self-supporting combustion with different meanings and two of them
are designated using two different terms in both French and German.
[SOURCE: ISO 13943:2008, 4.96]
3.2
fire
〈controlled〉 self-supporting combustion that has been deliberately arranged to provide useful
effects and is limited in its extent in time and space
[SOURCE: ISO 13943:2008, 4.97]
3.3
fire
〈uncontrolled〉 self-supporting combustion that has not been deliberately arranged to provide
useful effects and is not limited in its extent in time and space
[SOURCE: ISO 13943:2008, 4.98]
3.4
fire hazard
physical object or condition with a potential for an undesirable consequence from fire (3.3)
[SOURCE: ISO 13943:2008, 4.112]
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3.5
fire risk
probability of a fire (3.3) combined with a quantified measure of its consequence
Note 1 to entry: It is often calculated as the product of probability and consequence.
[SOURCE: ISO 13943:2008, 4.124]
3.6
fire-safety engineering
application of engineering methods based on scientific principles to the development or
assessment of designs in the built environment through the analysis of specific fire scenarios
(3.7) or through the quantification of risk for a group of fire scenarios
[SOURCE: ISO 13943:2008, 4.126]
3.7
fire scenario
qualitative description of the course of a fire (3.3) with respect to time, identifying key events
that characterise the studied fire and differentiate it from other possible fires
Note 1 to entry: It typically defines the ignition and fire growth processes, the fully developed fire stage, the fire
decay stage, and the environment and systems that impact on the course of the fire.
[SOURCE: ISO 13943:2008, 4.129]
3.8
intermediate-scale fire test
fire test performed on a test specimen of medium dimensions
Note 1 to entry: A fire test performed on a test specimen for which the maximum dimension is between 1 m and
3 m is usually called an intermediate-scale fire test.
[SOURCE: ISO 13943:2008, 4.200]
3.9
large-scale fire test
fire test that cannot be carried out in a typical laboratory chamber, performed on a test
specimen of large dimensions
Note 1 to entry: A fire test performed on a test specimen of which the maximum dimension is greater than 3 m is
usually called a large-scale fire test.
[SOURCE: ISO 13943:2008, 4.205]
3.10
qualitative fire test
fire test which is either:
a) a pass/fail test; or
b) a test which categorizes the behaviour of the test specimen by determining its position in
a rank order of performance
[SOURCE: IEC 60695-4:2012, 3.2.22]
3.11
quantitative fire test
fire test which takes into account the circ
...