AS/NZS 2111.18:1997 Textile floor coverings - Tests and measurements, Method 18: Burning behaviour - Tablet test at ambient temperature

Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand

Version: Second Edition 1997. (Current)

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Publication date

05-08-1997

Pages

Current status

Current

Supersedes

Supersedes: AS 2111.18-1980 Textile floor coverings - Tests and measurements, Method 18: Burning behaviour - Tablet test at ambient temperature

Draft Designation: DR 96539

Superseded by

Reconfirmed by: AS/NZS 2111.18:1997 Rec:2013 Textile floor coverings - Tests and measurements, Method 18: Burning behaviour - Tablet test at ambient temperature

Document Number

2111

Description

This Standard specifies a method for the assessment of the burning behaviour often superficial of textile floor coverings in a horizontal position when exposed to a small source of ignition under controlled laboratory conditions. The method specified in this Standard is applicable to all types of textile floor coverings whatever their construction or their fibre composition. The method may also be applicable to unfinished material. In this case, the result does not indicate the behaviour of the material in the condition in which it is used. Reconfirmed: 2013-07-30 Originated in Australia as AS 2111.18-1980. Jointly revised and designated AS/NZS 2111.18:1997.

Committee

Burning Behaviour of Textile Products, Floor Coverings and Furniture.

CS-086

Australian Furnishing Research and Development Institute Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Australian Retailers Association Australian Wool Processors Council Australian Wool Research and Promotion Organisation Australian Wool Testing Authority Consumers' Federation of Australia Council of Textile and Fashion Industries of Australia CSIRO-Division of Building, Construction and Engineering Department of Fair Trading N.S.W. Consumer Protection Agency Federal Bureau of Consumer Affairs (Australia) Furnishers Society of Victoria Furnishing Industry Association of Australia Ministry of Consumer Affairs (New Zealand) New Zealand Furniture Manufacturers Federation Office of Consumer Affairs, Queensland Office of Fair Trading and Business Affairs (Victoria) Plastics and Chemicals Industry Association Research Institute Textile Services (New Zealand) Retail and Wholesale Merchants Association of New Zealand Royal New Zealand Plunket Society Textile Distributors Association (Australia) Wool Research Organization of New Zealand.

ISBN

0 7337 1301 7

Attribution

Standards Australia/Standards New Zealand 1997.

Licence

NSW

VIC

QLD

ACT

TAS

Sector

Residential

Civil

Commercial

Industrial