LATEST, NEW & UPDATED STANDARDS IN THE FIELD OF ENVIRONMENTAL TESTING Written and compiled by Consultant David Richards Hon.FSEE, CEng, CEnv
This issue of the standards reports marks 20 years since I took over producing the report from Stan Wall. Before he retired, Stan generated a standards report for the journal for a similar period as myself. Although the report has changed somewhat over the years, the most notable difference from those early reports is the larger number of environmental standards which feature. This is partly due to the inclusion of standards related to sustainability, which hardly existed 20 years ago. However, it is also due to the more flexible period between review and updates, now operated by the international standards organisations. It is also notable that very few environmental standards now originate solely within the UK. Currently, the vast majority of environmental
Category Environmental Conditions
Standard BS EN IEC 60721-2-7 BS EN IEC 60721-3
Environmental Testing
IEC 62435-4 ISO 877-3 BS EN IEC 60068-2-5 BS EN IEC 60068-2-10 BS EN IEC 60068-2-74 BS EN IEC 60749
standards originate from the international standards organisations of IEC and ISO, although a few originate from the European standards organisations CEN, CENELEC and ETSI. BS EN IEC 60068-2-5 Environmental testing. Tests. Test S. Simulated solar radiation at ground level and guidance for solar radiation testing and weathering. This update was proposed by a small group of test houses (in Japan and the USA) who wanted to use the test procedure to be more focused on evaluating the (actinic) degradation caused by solar radiation. BS EN IEC 60721-3-1 and -2 Classification of environmental conditions. Classification of groups of environmental parameters and their severities, (-1) Storage and (-2)
Transportation and Handling. These two standards represent the first of a series of updates to the 60721-3 series of documents. They set out the environmental conditions that electro-technical equipment may experience during normal worldwide usage. BS EN IEC 60068-2-10 Environmental testing. Tests. Test J and guidance. Mould growth. This document has been reissued as an amendment. Although the standard report does not normally include amendments (which imply less than 10% of the text has changed), the change to this document is worthy of note. The modification to the Mould growth now permits evaluation to be undertaken at material specimen level rather than just on complete equipment (which is still permitted).
Description Classification of environmental conditions. Environmental conditions appearing in nature. Fauna and flora.
Classification of environmental conditions. Classification of groups of environmental parameters and their severities. -1 Storage -2 Transportation and Handling
Electronic components. Long-term storage of electronic semiconductor devices. Storage. Plastics. Methods of exposure to solar radiation. Intensified weathering using concentrated solar radiation. Environmental testing. Tests. Test S. Simulated solar radiation at ground level and guidance for solar radiation testing and weathering. Environmental testing. Tests. Test J and guidance. Mould growth. Environmental testing. Tests. Test Xc: Fluid contamination.
Semiconductor devices. Mechanical and climatic test methods. -12 Vibration, variable frequency. -13 Salt atmosphere. -26 Electrostatic discharge (ESD) sensitivity testing. Human body model (HBM).
Acoustics
BS ISO 10494 BS EN 1793
Climatic PD ISO/TS 19392 Turbines and turbine sets. Measurement of emitted airborne noise. Engineering/survey method.
Road traffic noise reducing devices. Test method for determining the acoustic performance. -2 Intrinsic characteristics of airborne sound insulation under diffuse sound field conditions. -6 Intrinsic characteristics. In situ values of airborne sound insulation under direct sound field conditions.
Paints and varnishes. Coating systems for wind-turbine rotor blades. -1 Minimum requirements and weathering. -2 Determination and evaluation of resistance to rain erosion using rotating arm. -3 Determination and evaluation of resistance to rain erosion using water jet.
Electro-Magnetic BS EN IEC 61000-2-2
BS EN IEC 60230 BS IEC 62153-4-9
Sustainability
BS EN IEC 62228-1 BS 8887-3
New Work Items In order to give members the opportunity to take part in the setting of standards, the following are recently announced new standards work, along with the relevant BSI committee (in brackets).
BS EN ISO 14024 BS ISO 37106 ISO 37120 ISO 2631-1 ISO 6070 ISO 7574
Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). Environment. Compatibility levels for low frequency conducted disturbances and signalling in public low-voltage power supply systems.
Impulse tests on cables and their accessories.
Metallic communication cable test methods. Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC). Coupling attenuation of screened balanced cables, triaxial method. Integrated circuits. EMC evaluation of transceivers. General conditions and definitions.
Design for manufacture, assembly, disassembly and end-of-life processing (MADE). Guide to choosing an appropriate end-of-life design strategy. Environmental labels and declarations. Type I environmental labelling. Principles and procedures. Sustainable cities and communities. Guidance on establishing smart city operating models for sustainable communities. Sustainable cities and communities. Indicators for city services and quality of life. Mechanical vibration and shock. Evaluation of human exposure to whole-body vibration. General requirements. (GME/21) Auxiliary tables for vibration generators. Methods of describing equipment characteristics. (GME/21)
Acoustics. Statistical methods for determining and verifying stated noise emission values of machinery and equipment. -1 General considerations and definitions. (EH/1/4) -2 Methods for stated values for individual machines. (EH/1/4) -3 Simple(transition) method for stated values for batches of machines (EH/1/4) -4 Methods for stated values for batches of machines. (EH/1/4)
ISO 10326-2 ISO 10813-2 ISO/TR 14837-34
EN ISO 15708 ISO 16063-34 EN 17290
CEN/TR 19664 IEC/TS 63204
Mechanical vibration. Laboratory method for evaluating vehicle seat vibration. Application to railway vehicles. (GME/21) Vibration-generating machines. Guidance for selection. Equipment for dynamic structural testing. (GME/21)
Mechanical vibration. Ground-borne noise and vibration arising from rail systems. Characterizing irregularity of the running surfaces with respect to vibration excitation. (GME/21/5) Non destructive testing. Radiation methods for computed tomography. (WEE/46) Methods for the calibration of vibration and shock pick-ups. Testing of fixed temperature sensitivity. (GME/21)
Non-destructive testing. Ultrasonic testing. Examination for loss of thickness due to erosion and/or corrosion using the TOFD technique. (WEE/46)
Human response to vibration. Guidance and terminology for instrumentation and equipment for the assessment of daily vibration exposure at the workplace according to the requirements of health and safety. (GME/21/6)
Measurement procedure of magnetic field levels generated by electronic and electrical equipment in the automotive environment with respect to human exposure. (GEL/106)
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