National foreword

This British Standard is the English language version of EN 950:1999.

The UK participation in its preparation was entrusted by Technical Committee B/538, Doors, windows, shutters, hardware and curtain walling, to Subcommittee B/538/2, Doors, which has the responsibility to:

aid enquirers to understand the text;
present to the responsible European committee any enquiries on the interpretation, or proposals for change, and keep the UK interests informed;
monitor related international and European developments and promulgate them in the UK.

A list of organizations represented on this subcommittee can be obtained on request to its secretary.

This British Standard forms part of a package of standards on doors which will not become fully effective until all standards in the package have been published and any superseded standards have been withdrawn. The date of withdrawal for national standards will be agreed within CEN and will be notified.

Cross-references

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A British Standard does not purport to include all the necessary provisions of a contract. Users of British Standards are responsible for their correct application.

Compliance with a British Standard does not of itself confer immunity from legal obligations.

This British Standard, having been prepared under the direction of the Sector Committee for Building and Civil Engineering, was published under the authority of the Standards Committee and comes into effect on 15 December 1999

Summary of pages

This document comprises a front cover, an inside front cover, the EN title page, pages 2 to 4, an inside back cover and a back cover.

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This European Standard was approved by CEN on 21 July 1999.

CEN members are bound to comply with the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations which stipuiate the conditions for giving this European Standard the status of a national standard without any alteration. Up-to-date lists and bibliographical references concerning such national standards may be obtained on application to the Central Secretariat or to any CEN member.

This European Standard exists in three official versions (English, French, German). A version in any other language made by translation under the responsibility of a CEN member into its own language and notified to the Central Secretariat has the same status as the official versions.

CEN members are the national standards bodies of Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

Foreword

This European Standard has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 33, Doors, windows, shutters and building hardware, the Secretariat of which is held by AFNOR.

This European Standard supersedes EN 85:1980.

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 February 2000, and conflicting national standards shall be withdrawn at the latest by February 2000.

According to the CEN/CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

This standard is one of a series of standards for doors.

This standard has been prepared taking into account ISO 8271 and EN 85.

1 Scope

This standard applies to all door leaves.

The standard specifies the method to be used to determine the damage caused to a door leaf by the impact of a hard body.

NOTE Such impacts, that might reasonably be expected from contact with small objects or parts of larger objects such as corners on furniture or footwear, can produce local surface failures affecting both strength and appearance. The kind of damage caused by impact can vary with the material used in the door construction.

2 Apparatus

2.1 Supports

2.2 Impact Equipment

2.3 Measuring equipment

3 Test specimens

4 Procedure

5 Expression of results

6 Test report

BS EN 950:1999

Door leaves. Determination of the resistance to hard body impact

Current

Published:

15 Dec 1999