Foreword

This document (EN 13383‑2:2013) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 154 “Aggregates”, the secretariat of which is held by BSI.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by November 2013, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by November 2013.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of patent rights. CEN [and/or CENELEC] shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

This document supersedes EN 13383‑2:2002.

This document has been prepared under a mandate given to CEN by the European Commission and the European Free Trade Association.

In comparison with the previous version, the following changes have been made.

• changes and clarifications to the sampling and sample reduction clauses, including a new informative annex on sampling from waterborne plant;
• introduction of requirements for sample preparation for the Micro-Deval test previously in EN 13383‑1;
• deletion of an unused wet sieving method for the determination of particle size distribution of coarse gradings of armourstone.
• removal to an informative annex of a previously normative alternative to the reference method for determination of mass distribution of light and heavy gradings.

Otherwise the majority of the changes from the previous version are editorial.

EN 13383 Armourstone consists of the following parts:

Part 1: Specifications

Part 2: Test methods

According to the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organisations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

BS EN 13383-2:2013

Armourstone - Test methods

Published:

31 May 2013

Withdrawn:

31 Dec 2014