Standard fire tests for building materials and structures.

Abstract

© Crown copyright 1981 IRE TESTS are designed to assess on laboratory scale the burning behaviour of a material, product, -Mstructure or system under standardised and reproducible test conditions which approximate to one or more aspects of a fire. Many fire tests use only a small specimen which cannot reflect the performance of a full size component in fire. The ignition source is usually constant and often of low intensity and hence cannot