IEC 60695 Fire Hazard Test

The IEC 60695 standard published by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) consists of the following subsections under the main title of "Fire hazard test":

• IEC 60695-1-10 Part 1-10: Guidance on the fire hazard assessment of electrotechnical products - General rules. This standard provides general guidance on fire hazard testing on how to reduce the risk of fire to a tolerable level and the potential effects of fires involving electrotechnical products. This standard explains the relationship between fire risk and possible effects of fire and provides guidance to IEC product committees on the applicability of qualitative and quantitative fire tests to fire hazard assessment of electrotechnical products. Details on the calculation of the fire risk are beyond the scope of this standard.
• IEC 60695-1-11 Part 1-11: Guidance on the fire hazard assessment of electrotechnical products - Fire hazard assessment. This standard provides guidance for the assessment of fire hazard of electrotechnical products and the development of fire hazard tests directly related to damage to humans, animals or property. The basic principles of this standard are:
• Identifying fire events to be associated with the product
• Determine how the measurable fire characteristics of the product relate to the likely occurrence and consequences of these events
• Establish test methods and performance requirements for those properties that will result in a tolerable fire outcome or eliminate the event entirely.
• IEC 60695-1-12 Part 1-12: Guide to fire hazard assessment of electrotechnical products - Fire safety engineering. This standard provides:
• A description of the principles and uses of fire safety engineering
• Guidance on the use of fire safety engineering in the design of electrotechnical products
• Fire safety engineering terminology and concepts
• An indication of the characteristics, data and tests required for entry into fire safety engineering assessments
• Informative references.
• This international standard is not intended to be a detailed technical design guide, but is intended to provide guidance to product committees on fire safety engineering methods and performance-based test information needs for use in performance-based designs and fire hazard assessments of electrotechnical materials, assemblies, products and systems.
• IEC 60695-1-20 Part 1-20: Guidance on the fire hazard assessment of electrotechnical products - Flammability - General guidance. This standard provides guidance on the flammability of electrotechnical products and the materials from which they are composed. This standard provides guidance on flammability principles, the selection of appropriate test methods, and the use and interpretation of results.
• IEC 60695-1-21 Part 1-21: Guidance on fire hazard assessment of electrotechnical products - Flammability - Summary and conformity of test methods. This standard provides a summary of the test methods used to determine the flammability of electrotechnical products or the materials from which they are composed. This standard also includes test methods for which flammability by design is an important measurable property.
• IEC 60695-1-30 Part 1-30: Guide to fire hazard assessment of electrotechnical products - Pre-selection test process - General guidelines. This standard provides guidance for evaluating and selecting candidate materials, components, or sub-assemblies to make an end product based on pre-selection testing.
• IEC 60695-1-40 Part 1-40: Guidance on fire hazard assessment of electrotechnical products - Insulating fluids. This standard provides guidance on minimizing the fire hazard from the use of electrically insulating fluids regarding:
• Electrotechnical equipment and systems
• People, building structures and contents.
• IEC 60695-2-10 Part 2-10: Glowing/hot wire based test methods - Glow wire apparatus and general test procedure. This standard describes the glow wire apparatus and common test procedure for simulating the effects of thermal stresses that can be produced for short periods by heat sources such as glowing elements or overloaded resistors to assess the fire hazard with a simulation technique.
• IEC 60695-2-11 Part 2-11: Glowing / hot wire based test methods - Glow wire flammability test method (GWEPT) for end products. This standard is intended to simulate the effects of thermal stresses produced by an electrically heated source to represent a fire hazard on the final product. This test method is used to check that, under defined test conditions, a final product exposed to an electrically heated source either has a limited flammability ability or, if ignited, a limited ability to spread flame.
• IEC 60695-2-12 Part 2-12: Glowing/hot wire based test methods - The glow wire flammability index (GWFI) test method for materials. This standard describes the details of the glow wire test to be applied to test specimens of solid electrical insulating materials or other solid materials for flammability testing to determine the glow wire flammability index.
• IEC 60695-2-13 Part 2-13: Glowing / hot wire based test methods - The glow wire ignition temperature (GWIT) test method for materials. This standard describes the details of the glow wire test to be applied to test specimens of solid electrical insulating materials or other solid materials for flammability testing to determine the glow wire ignition temperature.
• IEC 60695-2-20 Part 2-20: Glowing / hot wire based test methods - Hot wire coil test method - Device, verification, test method and guidance. This standard describes a test method applied to solid electrical insulating materials for which test samples can be provided. In this method, the time required to ignite a test specimen is measured when it is affected by heat from an electrically heated wire wrapped around the test specimen.
• IEC 60695-4 Part 4: Terminology for fire testing for electrotechnical products. This standard describes the terminology for fire tests for electrotechnical products.
• IEC 60695-5-1 Part 5-1: Corrosion damage effects of fire waste - General guidance. This standard provides guidance on:
• General aspects of corrosion damage testing methods
• Measurement methods of corrosion damage
• Evaluation of test methods
• Relevance of corrosion damage data to hazard assessment
• IEC 60695-6-1 Part 6-1: Smoke suppression - General guidance. This standard provides guidance on:
• Optical measurement of darkening of smoke
• General aspects of optical smoke testing methods
• Evaluation of test methods
• Expression of smoke test data
• Relevance of optical smoke data to hazard assessment
• IEC 60695-6-2 Part 6-2: Smoke blackening - Summary and conformity of test methods. This standard provides a summary of commonly used test methods for the assessment of smoke darkening. This standard contains a brief summary of static and dynamic test methods commonly used as international or national or industry standards.
• IEC 60695-7-1 Part 7-1: Toxicity of fire exit water - General guidance. This standard provides guidance on factors affecting toxic hazard from fires involving electrotechnical products and provides information on recommended methodologies for estimating and reducing toxic hazard from fires.
• IEC 60695-7-2 Part 7-2: Toxicity of fire exit water - Summary and conformity of test methods. This standard provides a brief summary of commonly used test methods for assessing the toxicity of fire wastes.
• IEC 60695-7-3 Part 7-3: Toxicity of effluent fire - Use and interpretation of test results. This standard is about laboratory tests used to measure the toxic components of fire wastes from electrotechnical products or materials used in electrotechnical products.
• IEC 60695-8-1 Part 8-1: Heat release - General guidance. This standard provides guidance on the measurement and interpretation of heat release from electrotechnical products and the materials from which they are made. Heat dissipation data can be used as part of a fire hazard assessment and in fire safety engineering.
• IEC 60695-8-2 Part 8-2: Heat release - Summary and conformity of test methods. This standard provides a summary of test methods for determining the heat released in fire tests on electrotechnical products or the materials from which they are composed.
• IEC 60695-9-1 Part 9-1: Flame propagation - General guidance. This standard provides guidance for assessing the surface propagation of flame for electrotechnical products and the materials from which they are composed.
• IEC 60695-9-2 Part 9-2: Flame propagation - Summary and conformity of test methods. This standard provides a summary of published test methods used to determine the surface propagation of flame of electrotechnical products or the materials from which they are composed.
• IEC 60695-10-2 Part 10-2: Abnormal heat - Ball pressure test method. This standard describes ball pressure testing as a method for evaluating the softening temperature and accelerated material flow under load in the ability of polymeric materials and parts of finished products to withstand abnormal heat. This standard is applicable to materials used in electrotechnical equipment, subassemblies and components, and to solid electrical insulating materials other than ceramics.
• IEC 60695-10-3 Part 10-3: Abnormal heat - Die stress relief distortion test. This standard describes a die stress relief distortion test. This test is applicable to electrotechnical equipment, including parts made of polymeric materials. This test method aims to evaluate the effects caused by the relief of residual process-induced stress set in the molded polymeric assembly of an end product.
• IEC 60695-11-2 Part 11-2: Test flames - 1 kW premixed flame - Device, confirmatory test arrangement and guidance. This standard describes the requirements for the manufacture and approval of a rated 1 kW propane/air premix flame for use in fire hazard testing.
• IEC 60695-11-3 Part 11-3: Test flames - 500 W flames - Device and confirmatory test methods. This standard provides detailed requirements for the manufacture of one of two 500 W nominal, premixed type test flames. The approximate total height of each flame is 125 mm. This standard includes two methods of producing a test flame: Method A uses methane. Method C uses either methane or propane.
• IEC 60695-11-4 Part 11-4: Test flames - 50 W flame - Device and confirmatory test method. This standard provides a description of the apparatus required to produce a 50 W test flame and a calibration procedure to check that the produced test flame meets the given requirements. Guidance on verification tests for test flames is given in standard IEC 60695-11-40.
• IEC 60695-11-5 Part 11-5: Test flames - Needle flame test method - Device, confirmatory test arrangement and guidance. This standard describes a needle flame test to simulate the effect of a small flame that may result from fault conditions, to assess the fire hazard with a simulation technique.
• IEC 60695-11-10 Part 11-10: Test flames - 50 W horizontal and vertical flame test methods. This standard describes small-scale laboratory test procedures aimed at comparing the combustion behavior of different materials used in electrotechnical products, when vertically or horizontally oriented test stick samples are exposed to a small flame ignition source with a rated thermal power of 50 W.
• IEC 60695-11-11 Part 11-11: Test flames - Determination of the characteristic heat flux for ignition from a non-contact flame source. This standard describes a test method for determining the characteristic heat flux for ignition from a non-contact flame source for materials used in electrotechnical products, sub-assemblies or parts thereof.
• IEC 60695-11-20 Part 11-20: Test flames - 500 W flame test method. This standard describes a test method consisting of two small-scale laboratory test procedures aimed at comparing the combustion behavior of different materials used in electrotechnical products.

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