IS 15589 : 2005 /ISO 6940 : 2004 Textile Fabrics - Burning Behaviour - Determination of Ease of Ignition of Vertically Oriented Specimens

National Foreword

This Indian Standard which is identical with ISO 6940 : 2004 ?Textile fabrics - Burning behaviour - Determination of ease of ignition of vertically oriented specimens? issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendations of the Chemical Methods of Test Sectional Committee (TX 05) and approval of the Textile Division Council.

This standard specifies conditioning temperature of 20+2°C. The National Annex A specifies conditioning temperature as 27+2°C suitable for the tropical countries like India.

The other related Indian Standard for the burning behaviour of textile fabrics is as under:

IS 15590 : 2005 Textile fabrics - Burning behaviour - Measurement of flame spread properties of vertically oriented specimens

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard with the above deviation. Certain conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following:

a) Wherever the words International Standard appear referring to this standard, they should be read as Indian Standard.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.