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Directive 95/28/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 relating to the burning behaviour of materials used in the interior construction of certain categories of motor vehicle (repealed)
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This test consists of exposing samples, held in a vertical position, to a flame and determining the speed of propagation of the flame over the material to be tested.
The apparatus shall consist of:
a specimen holder;
a burner;
a ventilation system to extract gas and combustion products;
a template;
marker threads of white mercerized cotton threads having a maximum linear density of 50 tex.
The gas supplied to the burner can be either commercial propane gas or commercial butane gas.
The burner shall be positioned in front of, but below, the specimen such that it lies in a plane passing through the vertical centreline of the specimen and perpendicular to its face (see figure 2), such that the longitudinal axis is inclined upwards at 30 ° to the vertical towards the lower edge of the specimen. The distance between the tip of the burner and the lower edge of the specimen shall be 20 mm.
Each loop shall be attached to a suitable timing device. Sufficient tension shall be imposed to the thread to maintain its position relative to the specimen.
from the start of the application of the igniting flame to the severance of the first marker thread (t1);
from the start of the application of the igniting flame to the severance of the second marker thread (ts);
from the start of the application of the igniting flame to the severance of the third marker thread (t3).
The observed phenomena shall be written down in the test-report, to include:
the durations of combustion: 1, t2 and t3 in seconds,
the corresponding burnt distances: d1, d2 and d3 in mm.
The burning rate V1 and the rates V2 and V3, if applicable, shall be calculated (for each sample if the flame reaches at least the first marker thread) as follows:
The highest burning rate of V1, V2 and V3 shall be taken into account.
Specimen holder
(Dimensions in millimetres)
Burner ignition location
Gas burner
(Dimensions in millimetres)
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