Eurailtest provides services for national and international urban and suburban transport companies, rolling stock manufacturers, suppliers of equipment, cable manufacturers, etc.
Its laboratories are major players in the development of French and European rail transport fire safety regulations and are now able to produce fire classifications for your materials or cables according to the new European Technical Specification CEN TS 45545.
For 33 years RATP has been involved in the fields of fire safety and regulations.
In the eighties, RATP and SNCF formed a working group to draw up common French standards NF F 16-101 and NF F 16-102 issued in 1988. The involvement of the two French railway operators brought numerous changes with regard to the fire behaviour of plastics.
Following major breakthroughs in the internationalisation of fire testing and fire classification procedures, the Test & Measurement Laboratory (LEM) now participates in several standards committees responsible for designing new fire testing methods and agreeing new European fire requirements, these factors being vital to the structural reorganisation and interoperability of the European rail system from an overall safety perspective. The current European technical specification is scheduled to become an official standard within the next few years.
RATP and SNCF Laboratories are able to classify cables and materials in accordance with French standard NF F 16-101 (-102) and can conduct the tests required to assess the fire behaviour of cables and materials in accordance with standard XP CEN TS 45545-2.
FIRE TEST ON CABLES:
- Flame spread according to EN 50265-2-1: test category C2
- Flame spread according to EN 50266-2-4 and EN 50305 (§9.1.1 and 9.2.2): IEC cabin
- Smoke opacity in a 27 m³ chamber according to NF EN 50268-2
- Smoke toxicity according to NF X 70-100-1 and -2 at 600°C with nitrogen oxides
FIRE TEST ON MATERIALS:
- Vertical radiant panel according to ISO 5658-2
- Oxygen Index according to ISO 4589-2
- Smoke opacity according to ISO 5659-2
- Smoke toxicity according to Appendix C of XP CEN TS 45545-2 (amendments in progress: Transfeu Project)
- Smoke toxicity according to NF X 70-100-1 and -2 at 600°C with nitrogen oxides
- Heat release rate (MAHRE) according to ISO 5660-1
- Flame persistence according to ISO 11925-2