BS 476-6 Fire Testing for Building Products and Structural Elements

EUROLAB, with its state-of-the-art accredited laboratories and expert team, provides precise and fast testing services within the scope of BS 476-6 testing. Fire tests on building materials and structures should determine the performance of products when subjected to the test conditions specified in the fire propagation method.

This standard specifies a test method that provides a comparative measure of the contribution to fire growth by an essentially flat material, composite or assembly, in which the result is expressed as a fire spread index. It is primarily designed to evaluate the performance of interior wall and ceiling coverings.

A combustion chamber containing a horizontal gas burner tube and two electrical heating elements is located under a removable steel chimney and hood. The plate sample is placed in the sample holder and clamped onto the combustion chamber with the face of the sample in contact with the walls of the combustion chamber. exposed to flame and heat from the heating element.

Temperature measurements are made frequently throughout the test and the values ​​are used to calculate the fire spread index. The higher the fire spread index, the greater the effect of the product on accelerating fire growth.

EUROLAB assists manufacturers with BS 476-6 test compliance. Our test experts, with their professional working mission and principles, provide you, our manufacturers and suppliers, the best service and controlled testing process in our laboratories. Thanks to these services, businesses receive more effective, high-performance and quality testing services and provide safe, fast and uninterrupted service to their customers.