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EKI terminibaas Esterm

ID 718676 Last modified 30.12.2004
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Domain building aidspublic safety services
flashover preferred
  • ruumis olevate süttivate materjalide kogu pinna äkiline põlema löömine
  • a stage in the development of a contained fire in which all exposed surfaces reach ignition temperature more or less simultaneously and fire spreads throughout the space and flames appear on all surfaces
flashover preferred
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  • If the FRG considers the proposal to be well founded, it will then determine (either itself or on the basis of recommendations) the functional performance criteria upon which a product is to be judged in the new reference test (e. g. no flashover in a room, extent of fire spread from storey to storey via a fa?ade etc) and, if required, any parameters that need to be measured or observed to express these criteria (e. g. time to flashover, heat release, flame spread, smoke production, occurrence of flaming droplets etc).
flash-over

EKI terminibaas Esterm

ID 728734 Last modified 30.12.2004
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Domain Electrical Engineeringmeasuring instruments
  • an electric discharge over the surface of an insulator
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flashover
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  • The impulse test shall be carried out first and the a.c. voltage test afterwards. During these tests, no flashover, disruptive discharge or puncture shall occur.

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