BS 476 : Part 5: 1979 British Standard Fire tests on building materials and structures Part 5, Method of test for ignitability 1. Scope This Part of this British Standard specifies a method of test for the determination of the ignitability characteristics of ‘the exposed surfacss of essentially fat, rigid or semi-rigid building materials or composites, when tested in the vertical position. 2. Reference “The title of the standards publication referred to in this standard is given on page 5. 3, Definitions For the purposes of this British Standard, the definitions given in BS 4422 apply, together with the following. 3.1. product. Tho material or composite about whict information is required. 3.2 matorial. A basic single substance or uniformly dispersed mixture, 3.3. composite. A combination of materials that are ‘generally recognized in building construction as discrete entities. 3.4 exposed surface. That surface of the product subjected to the heating conditions of the test, 4. Suitability of a product for testing 5.3 Conditioning of specimens. Before testing, the specimens shall be conditioned to constarrt mass” st ¢ temperature of 23 + 2°C and a relative humidity of 50+ 10%, 6. Test apparatus 1 General. All dimensions are expressed as nominal values unless tolerences are specified, 6.2 Test frame. A suitable tost apparatus is shown in figure 1. The test apparatus shall consist of a U-trame of 9 mun steel rod or tube fixed to a rigid steel base. The frame shall be provided with two claps fixed at mid-height to hold the specimen centrally. Two supports of the same section @s the freme shall be fitted verticelly to the base so that the lower edge of the specimen rests on them in its testing position. 6.3 Gas bummer, A metal tube with one end reduced to an orifice of 1.50.1 mm diameter shall be pivoted on 3 fixed strap attached to the base and it shall be provided with an adjustable stop so that, when set In Its testing position, the ‘ube is inclined at an angle of 45 + 5° to the vertical and ‘the centre of its orifice is 3 +1, -O mm from the esntral point of the face of the specimen {see figure 2}. GA Timing device. The timing davies shall bs capsble of measuring elapsed time to an accuracy af not worse than