Leather. Physical and mechanical tests. Determination of fogging characteristics

Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Language(s)

English

Published date

30-09-2011

Publisher

British Standards Institution

This International Standard specifies two alternative methods for determining the fogging characteristics of leathers used in the passenger compartments of motor vehicles, namely Method A and Method B. These are two different test procedures to measure the volatile components and there is no mathematical correlation between the results obtained with Method A and those with Method B.

Method A determines by reflection the light scattering properties (or opaqueness) and the nature of the film or droplet formation from volatile components condensed on a cold glass surface. Method B measures gravimetrically the quantity of volatile components condensed on a cold aluminium foil surface. Annex A gives the results of inter-laboratory trial which show that Method B performs well, whereas Method A showed a large variation in the percentage reflection.

The test conditions allow the two tests to be carried out in succession.

Committee	TCI/69
DevelopmentNote	Supersedes BS EN 14288. (09/2011)
DocumentType	Standard
Pages	22
PublisherName	British Standards Institution
Status	Current
Supersedes	BS EN 14288:2003

Standards	Relationship
ISO 17071:2006	Identical
EN ISO 17071:2011	Identical

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