AS/NZS 60695.4:2002

1 - AS/NZS 60695.4:2002 FIRE HAZARD TESTING - TERMINOLOGY CONCERNING FIRE TESTS
4 - CONTENTS
5 - PREFACE
6 - 1 Scope
6 - 2 Terms and definitions
6 - 2.1 actual calorific value; heat release (J/kg)
6 - 2.2. afterflame
6 - 2.3 afterflame time
6 - 2.4 afterglow
6 - 2.5 afterglow time
6 - 2.6 arc resistance
6 - 2.7 area burning rate
6 - 2.8 ash; ashes
6 - 2.9 burn (intransitive verb)
7 - 2.10 burned area
7 - 2.11 bursting
7 - 2.12 char (noun)
7 - 2.13 char (verb)
7 - 2.14 chimney effect
7 - 2.15 clinker
7 - 2.16 combustible
7 - 2.17 combustion
7 - 2.18 composite material
7 - 2.19 corrosion damage
7 - 2.20 corrosion target
7 - 2.21 damaged area
8 - 2.22 damaged length (m)
8 - 2.23 deflagration
8 - 2.24 detonation
8 - 2.25 ease of ignition
8 - 2.26 explosion
8 - 2.27 exposure time (s)
8 - 2.28 extent of combustion
8 - 2.29 fire
8 - 2.30 fire barrier
8 - 2.31 fire behaviour
8 - 2.32 fire compartment
9 - 2.33 fire effluent
9 - 2.34 fire effluent decay characteristics
9 - 2.35 fire effluent transport
9 - 2.36 fire hazard
9 - 2.37 fire integrity
9 - 2.38 fire load (J)
9 - 2.39 fire load density
9 - 2.40 fire point
9 - 2.41 fire resistance (min)
9 - 2.42 fire retardant (noun)
10 - 2.43 fire risk
10 - 2.44 fire scenario
10 - 2.45 fire stability
10 - 2.46 flame (noun)
10 - 2.47 flame (verb)
10 - 2.48 flame front
10 - 2.49 flame retardance
10 - 2.50 flame retardant (noun)
10 - 2.51 flame retardant treatment
10 - 2.52 flame retarded
10 - 2.53 flame spread
11 - 2.54 flame spread rate (m/s)
11 - 2.55 flame spread time (s)
11 - 2.56 flaming (noun)
11 - 2.57 flammability
11 - 2.58 flammable
11 - 2.59 flash- over
11 - 2.60 flashpoint (°C)
11 - 2.61 full fire development
11 - 2.62 fully developed fire
11 - 2.63 gasification
11 - 2.64 gasify
11 - 2.65 glowing
11 - 2.66 glowing combustion
12 - 2.67 gross calorific value (J/kg)
12 - 2.68 heat of combustion (J/ kg)
12 - 2.69 heat release rate (W)
12 - 2.70 ignitability
12 - 2.71 ignitable
12 - 2.72 ignite (intransitive verb)
12 - 2.73 ignite (transitive verb)
12 - 2.74 ignited (adj)
12 - 2.75 ignition
12 - 2.76 ignition source
12 - 2.77 ignition temperature (minimum)
12 - 2.78 incandescence
13 - 2.79 light (verb)
13 - 2.80 lighted (adj)
13 - 2.81 lighting (noun)
13 - 2.82 linear burning rate (m/ s)
13 - 2.83 mass burning rate (kg/ s)
13 - 2.84 melting behaviour
13 - 2.85 minimum ignition time
13 - 2.86 molten drips (noun)
13 - 2.87 narcosis
13 - 2.88 net calorific value, heat of combustion (J/kg)
13 - 2.89 opacity (of smoke)
13 - 2.90 optical density (of smoke) [lg (I/T)]
14 - 2.91 oxygen index- OI (%)
14 - 2.92 pulmonary irritancy
14 - 2.93 pyrolysis
14 - 2.94 pyrophoric material
14 - 2.95 reaction to fire, burning behaviour
14 - 2.96 scorch (verb)
14 - 2.97 self- heating
14 - 2.98 self-ignition
14 - 2.99 self-propagation of flame
14 - 2.100 sensory irritancy
14 - 2.101 smoke
14 - 2.102 smoke obscuration
15 - 2.103 smouldering
15 - 2.104 soot
15 - 2.105 specific optical density
15 - 2.106 spontaneous combustion
15 - 2.107 spontaneous ignition temperature
15 - 2.108 surface burn
15 - 2.109 thermal insulation
15 - 2.110 thermal radiation
15 - 2.111 time/ temperature curve (standardized)
15 - 2.112 toxicant
15 - 2.113 toxicity
15 - 2.114 toxic hazard
16 - 2.115 toxic potency
16 - 2.116 tracking resistance
16 - 2.117 ultimate stability failure
16 - 2.118 wicking
16 - 2.119 draught free environment
16 - 2.120 fire model
16 - 2.121 fire modelling
16 - 2.122 large scale test
16 - 2.123 real scale test
16 - 2.124 small scale test
16 - 2.125 LC50 - lethal concentration 50 (g/m³)
17 - 2.126 LCt50 - lethal exposure dose 50 (g.min/m³)
17 - 2.127 LT50 - lethal time exposure
17 - 2.128 abnormal heat
17 - 2.129 EC50 - effective exposure concentration
17 - 2.130 extinction area of smoke
17 - 2.131 extinction coefficient of smoke
17 - 2.132 mass concentration, mg/ l
17 - 2.133 mass optical density of smoke
17 - 2.134 predicted lethal toxic potency
17 - 2.135 pyrolysis front
18 - 2.136 small parts
18 - 2.137 specific extinction area of smoke
18 - 2.138 specific optical density of smoke
19 - 3 Index of terms

This standard provides manufacturers and designers, testing laboratories and similar organizations, with defined terms that are applicable in fire hazard testing of electrotechnical products.

The terms defined in this Standard are applicable to fire tests.

First published as AS/NZS 4695.4:1996.
Jointly revised and redesignated as AS/NZS 60695.4:2002.