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Curtain walls - terminology and various standards

Author: Moïse RIOTTEAU

Publication date: August 10, 2009, Review date: March 4, 2015 | Lire en français

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    5. Safety, impact, spandrel height

    There are numerous standards and texts on the subject of life-safety impacts in the building industry; one standard in particular concerns facades: NF P 08-302. Not to be confused with the double-tire test defined in product standard NF EN 13830, which characterizes facade strength and has nothing to do with personal safety.

    5.1 Impact test, NF P 08 301

    This standard defines the shock bodies to be used for the tests and the method :

    • hard body impact: a steel ball weighing 500 g (D 0.5) or 1 kg (D 1). This is, for example, what corresponds to a kick through a pane of glass;

    • impact of small soft bodies: spherical bag φ of 100 mm of 3 kg (M3). This is, for example, what corresponds...

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