ASTM_E_2924_-_14.pdf

Designation:E292414Standard Practice forIntumescent Coatings1This standard is issued under the fixed designation E2924;the number immediately following the designation indicates the year oforiginal adoption or,in the case of revision,the year of last revision.A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval.Asuperscript epsilon()indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.1.Scope1.1 This practice provides architects,specifiers and buildingowners various consensus recommendations to specify indus-trys best practices for intumescent coatings.1.2 This practice covers the best practice for the following:1.2.1 The manufacturing,testing,labeling,transportation,delivery,and storage,including shelf life,of intumescentcoatings.1.2.2 The application of the intumescent coatings to struc-tural steel for the purposes of providing fire resistance.1.2.3 The inspection,including safety and equipment,ofintumescent coatings during and after the application.1.3 Standard PracticeThis practice offers a set of instruc-tions for performing one or more specific operations.Thisdocument cannot replace education or experience and shouldbe used in conjunction with professional judgment.Not allaspects of this practice may be applicable in all circumstances.This ASTM standard is not intended to represent or replace thestandard of care by which the adequacy of a given professionalservice must be judged,nor should this document be appliedwithout consideration of a projects many unique aspects.Theword“Standard”in the title means only that the document hasbeen approved through the ASTM consensus process.1.4 The text of this standard references notes and footnoteswhich provide explanatory material.These notes and footnotes(excluding those in tables and figures)shall not be consideredas requirements of the standard.1.5 The values stated in inch-pound units are to be regardedas standard.The values given in parentheses are mathematicalconversions to SI units that are provided for information onlyand are not considered standard.1.6 This standard does not purport to address all of thesafety concerns,if any,associated with its use.It is theresponsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro-priate safety and health practices and determine the applica-bility of regulatory limitations prior to use.NOTE1This practice references fire-test-response standards and mayinvolve hazardous tasks.Therefore,the following caveats are alsoreferenced.This practice references tests used to measure and describe theresponse of materials,products,or assemblies to heat and flame undercontrolled conditions,but does not by itself incorporate all factorsrequired for fire hazard or fire risk assessment of the materials,products,or assemblies under actual fire conditions.This practice references testsused to predict or provide a quantitative measure of the fire hazard froma specified set of fire conditions involving specific materials,products,orassemblies.This assessment does not necessarily predict the hazard ofactual fires which involve conditions other than those assumed in theanalysis.This practice references tests used to determine certain fire-testresponses of materials,products,or assemblies to heat and flame undercontrolled conditions by using results obtained from fire-test-responsestandards.The results obtained from using this practice do not,bythemselves,constitute measures of fire hazard or fire risk.Fire testing isinherently hazardous.Adequate safeguards for personnel and propertyshall be employed in conducting these tests.2.Referenced Documents2.1 ASTM Standards:2D2240 Test Method for Rubber PropertyDurometer Hard-nessD2794 Test Method for Resistance of Organic Coatings tothe Effects of Rapid Deformation(Impact)D4060 Test Method for Abrasion Resistance of OrganicCoatings by the Taber AbraserD4541 Test Method for Pull-Off Strength of Coatings UsingPortable Adhesion TestersE119 Test Methods for Fire Tests of Building Constructionand MaterialsE176 Terminology of Fire StandardsE631 Terminology of Building Constructions2.2 ISO Standards:3ISO 834-1 Fire-resistance TestsElements of BuildingConstructionPart 1:General RequirementsISO/IEC 17011 Conformity AssessmentGeneral Require-ments for Accreditation Bodies Accrediting ConformityAssessment BodiesISO/IEC 17020 General Criteria for the Operation of Vari-ous Types of Bodies Performing Inspection1This practice is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee E06 on Perfor-mance of Buildings and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee E06.21 onServiceability.Current edition approved June 1,2014.Published July 2014.DOI:10.1520/E2924142For referenced ASTM standards,visit the ASTM website,www.astm.org,orcontact ASTM Customer Service at serviceastm.org.For Annual Book of ASTMStandards volume information,refer to the standards Document Summary page onthe ASTM website.3Available from International Organization for Standardization(ISO),1,ch.dela Voie-Creuse,CP 56,CH-1211 Geneva 2