STANDARDS WATCH


STANDARDS REPORT By David Richards MSc CEng CEnv FIMechE FSOE


During the last four decades, standards expert David Richards has had active involvement in environmental test standardisation and worked on every issue of the UK Defence Standard 00-035 related to environmental testing. He has also worked on environmental standards for NATO, chaired the European Expert Group recommending environmental requirements for the European Defence Agency and worked on European (CEN) standards.


Category Environmental Testing


Accoustics


Contamination Corrosion & Degradation Shock & Vibration


Climatic Electro-Magnetic


Standard BS EN 60068


BS EN ISO 3743-2


BS ISO 20270 BS ISO 18589-1 BS EN ISO 12944-5 ISO 7626-5


BS EN 17277 PD IEC TR 61244-4 BS EN 50413


BS EN 50499 BS EN IEC 62209-3


Packaging Sustainability


BS EN ISO 4180 BS ISO 14007 BS ISO 22404


PD ISO/TS 50044 BS EN IEC 60904


PD IEC TS 62257-9-6 Miscellaneous


IEC/TS 63157 BS EN 2002


New Work Items In order to give readers 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 8624 BS EN ISO/IEC 17029 PD CEN ISO/TS 25107 BS EN IEC 31010 IEC 61123 BS EN IEC 62402 EN ISO 6721-3 EN ISO 14008 EN ISO 18086 ISO/TS 21913 ISO 23669


EN ISO 24656 EN 55016-4-6 IEC/TS 62600


This report includes new process-related documents covering continual improvement, conformity assessment, risk management and obsolescence management. There is also an update on compliance plans for reliability testing. BS EN ISO 4180 Packaging. Complete, filled transport packages. General rules for the compilation of performance test schedules. This update is commonly used to set testing requirements against transport and storage for packaged equipment. The testing encompassed is impact, low pressure and vibration, whilst climatically conditioned.


Description


Environmental testing. -2-67 Tests. Test Cy. Damp heat, steady state, accelerated test primarily intended for components. -3-3 Supporting documentation and guidance. Seismic test methods for equipment.


Acoustics. Determination of sound power levels of noise sources using sound pressure. Engineering methods for small, movable sources in reverberant fields. Methods for special reverberation test rooms.


Acoustics. Characterisation of sources of structure-borne sound and vibration. Indirect measurement of blocked forces. Measurement of radioactivity in the environment. Soil. General guidelines and definitions. Paints and varnishes. Corrosion protection of steel structures by protective paint systems. Protective paint systems.


Mechanical vibration and shock. Experimental determination of mechanical mobility. Measurements using impact excitation with an exciter which is not attached to the structure. Hydrometry. Measurement requirements and classification of rainfall intensity measuring instruments. Determing long-term radiation ageing in polymers. Effects of different temperatures and dose rates under radiation condition.


Basic standard on measurement and calculation procedures for human exposure to electric, magnetic and electromagnetic fields (0 Hz to 300 GHz). Procedure for the assessment of the exposure of workers to electromagnetic fields.


Measurement procedure for the assessment of specific absorption rate of human exposure to radio frequency fields from hand-held and body-mounted wireless communication devices. Vector measurement-based systems (Frequency range of 600 MHz to 6 GHz).


Packaging. Complete, filled transport packages. General rules for the compilation of performance test schedules. Environmental management. Guidelines for determining environmental costs and benefits.


Plastics. Determination of the aerobic biodegradation of non-floating materials exposed to marine sediment. Method by analysis of evolved carbon dioxide. Energy saving projects (EnSPs). Guidelines for economic and financial evaluation.


Photovoltaic devices. -4 Reference solar devices. Procedures for establishing calibration traceability. -7 Computation of the spectral mismatch correction for measurements of photovoltaic devices.


Renewable energy and hybrid systems for rural electrification. Integrated systems. Recommendations for selection of Photovoltaic Individual Electrification Systems (PV-IES).


Photovoltaic systems. Guidelines for effective quality assurance of power conversion equipment.


Aerospace series. Metallic materials. Test methods. -16 Non-destructive testing. Penetrant testing. -21 Radiographic testing of castings.


Continual improvement. Methods for quantification. Guide. Conformity Assessment. General principles and requirements for validation and verification bodies. Non-destructive testing. NDT training syllabuses. Risk management. Risk assessment techniques. Reliability testing. Compliance test plans for success ratio. Obsolescence management. Plastics. Determination of dynamic mechanical properties. Flexural vibration. Resonance-curve method. (PRI/21) Monetary valuation of environmental impacts and related environmental aspects. Principles, requirements and guidelines. (SES/1) Corrosion of metals and alloys. Determination of AC corrosion. Protection criteria. (GEL/603) Temperature verification method applied to dynamic fatigue testing. (ISE/101/4)


Corrosion of metals and alloys. Guidelines for corrosion and environmentally assisted cracking testing of additively manufactured metals and alloys. (ISE/NFE/8) Cathodic Protection of offshore wind structures. (ISE/NFE/8) Specification for radio disturbance and immunity measuring apparatus and methods. Statistics of complaints. (GEL/210/11)


Marine energy. Wave, tidal and other water current converters. Electricity producing wave energy converters. (PEL/114) -100 Power performance assessment. -101 Wave energy resource -200 Power performance assessment -201 Tidal energy resource assessment and characterization.


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BS EN IEC 60904-7 Photovoltaic devices. Computation of the spectral mismatch correction for measurements of photovoltaic devices. This document describes the procedure for correcting the spectral error caused by the mismatch between the test spectrum and the reference spectrum. BS EN 17277 Hydrometry. Measurement requirements and classification of rainfall intensity measuring instruments. This standard defines the procedure and equipment for laboratory and field measurement of liquid atmospheric precipitation. It provides a calibration classification of catching-type instruments based on their laboratory performance.


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