A fire-test, showing that our Titan doors comply with the new Europe-wide fire resistance standard BS EN 1634-1 (which replaces the previous British Standard for fire resistance)
When you buy a Titan door, not only are you getting the state of the art in burglary prevention, but the door also serves as a fire-door.
Our Titan Doors have been tested by an independent laboratory to the Europe-wide fire resistance standard BS EN 1634-1 and proved to meet the requirements for half-hour fire doors.
This standard replaces the previous British Standard for fire resistance testing, BS 476.
BS EN 1634-1 is designed to provide more realistic measurement of a product's performance in the case of fire.
The Titan door is suitable for a wide variety of fire door applications in domestic and commercial buildings.
The tests are designed to replicate the product's intended end-use i.e. doors are built into an appropriate supporting construction.
The specimen and any relevant supporting construction is built into a 3m x 3m restraint frame
which is mounted on the front of a furnace.
The temperature within the furnace is controlled according to an internationally-accepted time/temperature regime, intended to simulate a post flashover condition.
Flashover is the point at which all objects in the fire compartment have ignited.
Testing is continued for the required duration - 30 minutes - or until the specimen fails and it is no longer safe to continue.
Failure relates to integrity, insulation and load-bearing capacity (if appropriate).
Integrity failure is determined by 3 criteria:
. Cotton pad - this shows that gases passing through the specimen are sufficiently hot to ignite combustible material on the non-fire side and therefore spread the fire
. Gap gauges - these measure the width of gaps in the specimen and must remain below prescribed levels
. Continuous flaming - simply the fact that sustained flaming has occurred on the non-fire side.
This sequence of images shows such a test being carried out on our Titan door, showing the different times at which photos were taken, and the standard temperature curve to which the door was being subjected.
Note that the door holds back flame for more than a full 30 minutes. This is being subjected to temperatures on the other side of the door, climbing rapidly to 600ºC, and in excess of 800ºC well before the 30 minute point!
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