EN IEC 60695-6-1:2021

Fire hazard testing - Part 6-1: Smoke obscuration - General guidance

EN IEC 60695-6-1:2021

Name:EN IEC 60695-6-1:2021   Standard name:Fire hazard testing - Part 6-1: Smoke obscuration - General guidance
Standard number:EN IEC 60695-6-1:2021   language:English language
Release Date:16-Sep-2021   technical committee:CLC/SR 89 - Fire hazard testing
Drafting committee:IEC/TC 89 - IEC_TC_89   ICS number:13.220.99 - Other standards related to protection against fire

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-november-2021
Nadomešča:
SIST EN 60695-6-1:2005
SIST EN 60695-6-1:2005/A1:2010
Preskušanje požarne ogroženosti - 6-1. del: Otemnitev dima - Splošna navodila
(IEC 60695-6-1:2021)
Fire hazard testing - Part 6-1: Smoke obscuration - General guidance (IEC 60695-6-
1:2021)
Prüfungen zur Beurteilung der Brandgefahr - Teil 6-1: Sichtminderung durch Racuh -
Allgemeiner Leitfaden (IEC 60695-6-1:2021)
Essais relatifs aux risques du feu - Partie 6-1: Obscurcissement dû à la fumée -
Recommandations générales (IEC 60695-6-1:2021)
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN IEC 60695-6-1:2021
ICS:
13.220.40 Sposobnost vžiga in Ignitability and burning
obnašanje materialov in behaviour of materials and
proizvodov pri gorenju products
29.020 Elektrotehnika na splošno Electrical engineering in
general
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EUROPEAN STANDARD EN IEC 60695-6-1

NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
September 2021
ICS 13.220.99; 29.020 Supersedes EN 60695-6-1:2005 and all of its
amendments and corrigenda (if any)
English Version
Fire hazard testing - Part 6-1: Smoke obscuration - General
guidance
(IEC 60695-6-1:2021)
Essais relatifs aux risques du feu - Partie 6-1: Prüfungen zur Beurteilung der Brandgefahr - Teil 6-1:
Obscurcissement dû à la fumée - Recommandations Sichtminderung durch Racuh - Allgemeiner Leitfaden
générales (IEC 60695-6-1:2021)
(IEC 60695-6-1:2021)
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European foreword
The text of document 89/1472/CDV, future edition 3 of IEC 60695-6-1, prepared by IEC/TC 89 “Fire
hazard testing” was submitted to the IEC-CENELEC parallel vote and approved by CENELEC as
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level by publication of an identical national standard or by endorsement
• latest date by which the national standards conflicting with the (dow) 2024-09-09
document have to be withdrawn
This document supersedes EN 60695-6-1:2005 and all of its amendments and corrigenda (if any).
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Endorsement notice
The text of the International Standard IEC 60695-6-1:2021 was approved by CENELEC as a
European Standard without any modification.
In the official version, for Bibliography, the following notes have to be added for the standards
indicated:
IEC 60695-1-12 NOTE Harmonized as EN IEC 60695-1-12
ISO 5659-2 NOTE Harmonized as EN ISO 5659-2
IEC 61034-1 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61034-1
IEC 61034-2 NOTE Harmonized as EN 61034-2
Annex ZA
(normative)
Normative references to international publications
with their corresponding European publications
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments)
applies.
NOTE 1 Where an International Publication has been modified by common modifications, indicated by (mod), the
relevant EN/HD applies.
NOTE 2 Up-to-date information on the latest versions of the European Standards listed in this annex is available
here: www.cenelec.eu.
Publication Year Title EN/HD Year
IEC 60695-1-10 - Fire hazard testing - Part 1–10: Guidance EN 60695-1-10 -
for assessing the fire hazard of
electrotechnical products - General
guidelines
IEC 60695-1-11 - Fire hazard testing - Part 1–11: Guidance EN 60695-1-11 -
for assessing the fire hazard of
electrotechnical products - Fire hazard
assessment
IEC 60695-4 - Fire hazard testing - Part 4: Terminology EN IEC 60695-4 -
concerning fire tests for electrotechnical
products
IEC 60695-6-2 - Fire hazard testing - Part 6–2: Smoke EN IEC 60695-6-2 -
obscuration - Summary and relevance of
test methods
IEC Guide 104 - The preparation of safety publications and - -
the use of basic safety publications and
group safety publications
ISO 13943 2017 Fire safety - Vocabulary EN ISO 13943 2017
ISO/IEC Guide 51 - Safety aspects - Guidelines for their - -
inclusion in standards
IEC 60695-6-1
Edition 3.0 2021-08
INTERNATIONAL
STANDARD
NORME
INTERNATIONALE
HORIZONTAL PUBLICATION
PUBLICATION HORIZONTALE
Fire hazard testing –
Part 6-1: Smoke obscuration – General guidance

Essais relatifs aux risques du feu –

Partie 6-1: Obscurcissement dû à la fumée – Recommandations générales

INTERNATIONAL
ELECTROTECHNICAL
COMMISSION
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INTERNATIONALE
ICS 13.220.99; 29.020 ISBN 978-2-8322-1004-7

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CONTENTS
FOREWORD . 4
INTRODUCTION . 6
1 Scope . 7
2 Normative references. 7
3 Terms, definitions and symbols . 8
3.1 Terms and definitions . 8
3.2 Symbols . 10
4 General aspects of smoke test methods . 11
4.1 Fire scenarios and physical fire models . 11
4.2 Factors affecting smoke production . 12
4.2.1 General . 12
4.2.2 Modes of decomposition . 12
4.2.3 Ventilation and the burning environment . 16
4.2.4 Time and temperature . 16
4.2.5 Removal mechanisms for smoke particles. 16
5 Principles of smoke measurement . 16
5.1 General . 16
5.2 Bouguer's law . 16
5.3 Extinction area . 17
5.4 Log units . 18
5.5 Light sources . 18
5.6 Specific extinction area of smoke. 18
5.7 Mass optical density of smoke . 19
5.8 Visibility . 20
6 Static and dynamic methods . 20
6.1 Static methods . 20
6.1.1 Principles . 20
6.1.2 Extinction area of smoke . 20
6.1.3 Specific optical density of smoke . 21
6.1.4 Prediction of visibility . 21
6.2 Dynamic methods . 21
6.2.1 Principles . 21
6.2.2 Smoke production rate . 21
6.2.3 Total smoke production . 22
6.2.4 SMOGRA index . 22
7 Test methods . 23
7.1 Consideration of test methods . 23
7.2 Selection of test specimen . 24
8 Presentation of data . 24
9 Relevance of data to hazard assessment . 24
Annex A (informative) Calculation of visibility . 27
A.1 General . 27
A.2 Example. 27
Annex B (informative) Relationships between D and some other smoke parameters
s
as measured in ISO 5659-2 [4] . 29

IEC 60695-6-1:2021 © IEC 2021 – 3 –
Annex C (informative) Relationships between per cent transmission, as measured in a
"three metre cube" enclosure, and extinction area . 31
Bibliography . 33

Figure 1 – Different phases in the development of a fire within a compartment . 12
Figure 2 – Attenuation of light by smoke . 17
Figure 3 – Extinction area . 18
Figure 4 – Dynamic smoke measurement . 21
Figure 5 – Example SPRav versus t curve . 23
Figure 6 – SMOGRA curve derived from Figure 5 . 23
Figure 7 – Evaluation and consideration of smoke test methods . 26
Figure A.1 – Visibility (ω) versus extinction coefficient (k) . 27
Figure B.1 – Smoke parameters related to D as measured in ISO 5659-2 . 30
s
Figure C.1 – Extinction area (amount of smoke) related to per cent transmission as
measured in the "three metre cube" . 32

Table 1 – Characteristics of fire stages (from Table 1 in ISO 1970
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