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BS 5691-1:1995

Superseded

Superseded

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Guide for the determination of thermal endurance properties of electrical insulating materials General guidelines for ageing procedures and evaluation of test results

Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Superseded date

06-03-2002

Language(s)

English

Published date

15-11-1995

€231.38
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Committees responsible
National foreword
Foreword
Introduction
Section one. General
1 Scope
2 General considerations
3 Principles of evaluation and difinitions
4 Selection of test procedures - General guidelines
Section two. Experimental procedures
5 Selection of end-points
6 Preparation of test specimens
7 Establishment of initial property value and number
   of test specimens
8 Exposure temperatures and times
9 Ageing ovens
10 Environmental conditioning
11 Procedure
Section three. Evaluation
12 Analysis of test results and determination of thermal
   endurance characteristics
13 Treatment and presentation of test data which fail to
   satisfy the statistical requirements
14 Test report
Appendices
A Notes on mechanisms of thermal degradation
B The halving interval
C Dispersion and non-linearity
D The thermal endurance profile (TEP)
Table
I Suggested exposure temperatures and times
Figures
1 Determination of the time to reach the end-point
   criterion at each temperature. Property variation
2 Thermal endurance graph. T1: Temperature index. HIC:
   Halving interval
3 Thermal endurance graph. RTI: Relative temperature
   index. HIC (A): Halving interval
Annex
ZA (normative) Other international publications quoted
    in this standard with the references of the relevant
    European publications

Gives principles of test procedures to evaluate the thermal endurance of insulating materials and combinations of such materials. Shows the basic analysis to derive the temperature index and halving interval from test results.

Committee
GEL/15
DevelopmentNote
SUPERSEDES BS 5691 PART 1 1979
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
26
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Superseded
SupersededBy
Supersedes

Standards Relationship
HD 611.1 : 200S1 Identical
IEC 60216-1:2013 Identical

IEC 60212:2010 Standard conditions for use prior to and during the testing of solid electrical insulating materials
IEC 60216-4-1:2006 Electrical insulating materials - Thermal endurance properties - Part 4-1: Ageing ovens - Single-chamber ovens
IEC 60493-1:2011 Guide for the statistical analysis of ageing test data - Part 1: Methods based on mean values of normally distributed test results
IEC 60611:1978 Guide for the preparation of test procedures for evaluating the thermal endurance of electrical insulation systems
IEC 60216-2:2005 Electrical insulating materials - Thermal endurance properties - Part 2: Determination of thermal endurance properties of electrical insulating materials - Choice of test criteria
IEC 60505:2011 Evaluation and qualification of electrical insulation systems
IEC 60085:2007 Electrical insulation - Thermal evaluation and designation
IEC 60216-4:1980 Guide for the determination of thermal endurance properties of electrical insulating materials - Part 4: Instructions for calculating the thermal endurance profile
IEC 60216-3:2006 GUIDE FOR THE DETERMINATION OF THERMAL ENDURANCE PROPERTIES OF ELECTRICAL INSULATING MATERIALS - STATISTICAL METHODS
IEC 60216-5:2008 Electrical insulating materials - Thermal endurance properties - Part 5: Determination of relative thermal endurance index (RTE) of an insulating material
IEC 60216-3-1:1990 Guide for the determination of thermal endurance properties of electrical insulating materials. Part 3: Instructions for calculating thermal endurance characteristics - Section 1: Calculations using mean values of normally distributed complete data
IEC 60216-3-2:1993 Guide for the determination of thermal endurance properties of electrical insulating materials - Part 3: Instructions for calculating thermal endurance characteristics - Section 2: Calculations for incomplete data: proof test results up to and including the median time to end-point (equal test groups)

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