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Publication
Date:
September 2000
Hardback, 406pp, with 303 illustrations(incl
44 colour plates)
and 93 tables.
ISBN: 0 953 2312 5 9
Price:
£50 plus p+p at the following rates: UK £4.50, Europe
£6, Rest of World £12
The
European Commission, DG for Research (DGXII) and European
Industry have sponsored this 3 year research project. FIPEC
has achieved its target, to develop sensitive methods for
measuring the fire performance of electric cables(FIPEC).
The methods are based on sound engineering principles rather
than prescriptive tests unlike the current European national
cable fire assessment techniques. The latter are not sensitive
enough to differentiate between cables with reasonable fire
properties and those with very good properties needed for
high hazard installations or for high density telecommunication
installations.
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FIPEC's findings have been presented
to the EC and the group of European regulators who are studying
them with view to their use as the basis of European-wide
regulatory tests for use in the Construction Products Directive.
The test methods developed have been successfully correlated
with real scale tests and compared with results from bench
scale tests (cone calorimeter).
This
comprehensive report gives a detailed review of the work undertaken
during this 3 year project and presents the full findings,
including draft standards guidance documents. This report
will be available later in the summer and should be of interest
to all those active in the wire and cable industries either
as a manufacturer, supplier or end-user. |
