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BS EN 15497 - FINGER JOINTED STRUCTURAL TIMBER - PERFORMANCE REQUIREMENTS AND MINIMUM PRODUCTION REQUIREMENTS

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English

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Summarise this standard

Foreword
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 Symbols
5 Requirements
  5.1 General
  5.2 Timber
       5.2.1 General
       5.2.2 Species
       5.2.3 Knots and fissures
       5.2.4 Wane or edge damage
  5.3 Adhesives
  5.4 Finger joints
  5.5 Durability
       5.5.1 Natural durability of the timber
       5.5.2 Timber treated against biological attack
  5.6 Formaldehyde emission
  5.7 Reaction to fire
6 Evaluation of conformity
  6.1 General
  6.2 Initial type testing
       6.2.1 General
       6.2.2 Report
  6.3 Factory production control (FPC)
       6.3.1 General
       6.3.2 Equipment
       6.3.3 Raw materials and components
       6.3.4 Product testing and evaluation
7 Marking
Annex A (normative) - Minimum manufacturing requirements
  A.1 Production conditions
  A.2 Timber
  A.3 Adhesive application
       A.3.1 General
       A.3.2 Adhesive application by machine
       A.3.3 Manual adhesive application
  A.4 Assembly and end pressure
       A.4.1 Assembly
       A.4.2 Adhesive
       A.4.3 End pressure
Annex B (normative) - Formaldehyde classes
  B.1 General
  B.2 Initial classification and factory production control
  B.3 Requirements for the formaldehyde classes
Annex ZA (informative) - Clauses of this European standard
         addressing the provisions of the EU Constructions
         Products Directive
  ZA.1 Scope and relevant characteristics
  ZA.2 Procedure for attestation of conformity of
       finger-jointed structural timber
       ZA.2.1 System of attestation of conformity
       ZA.2.2 EC certificate of conformity and EC declaration
              of conformity
  ZA.3 CE marking and labelling
Bibliography

BS EN 15497

Committee
B/518
DocumentType
Draft
Pages
30
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Current

Standards Relationship
PREN 15497 : DRAFT 2011 Identical

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