Test and experimental facilities for insulation materials in construction

FIW München is recognised and accredited as a testing laboratory pursuant to EN ISO/IEC 17025 on a national (testing, surveillance and certification body) and European (notified body) level. 

Its special expertise is further exhibited by its leading cooperation in the “Lambda Expert Group” for the voluntary European certification scheme CEN KEYMARK, whereby laboratories registered to determine the thermal conductivity of thermal insulations materials audit each other’s work and confirm measuring precision through interlaboratory testing.

The performance of insulation material is audited through tests after EN 13162 - EN 13171. We perform admission trials for new insolation material after testing schedules of the DIBt and first trials for insulation material after the testing schedule of the DIBt for design approvals (BAG) or of the European Assessment Document (EAD).

Beside this we perform the following tests:

  • Classification of the fire behavior after DIN EN 13501-1, class A1, class E
  • Ignitability of products subjected to direct impingement of flame according to DIN EN ISO 11925-2
  • Review of the building material class DIN 4102-B2 
    (normal ignitability)
  • Determination of the tendency to carbonize continuously according to DIN EN 16733
  • Non-combustibility test according to DIN EN ISO 1182
  • Determination of the gross heat of combustion according to DIN EN ISO 1716

according to the testing specifications DIN EN 12664, DIN EN 12667, DIN EN 12939, ISO 8301, ISO 8302, ASTM C177 and DIBt guidelines, Berlin

  • at an average temperature in the temperature range 
    -30 °C to +80 °C
  • at an average temperature of 10 °C

  • Characteristics, dimensions, thickness, bulk density
  • Thickness for floating floor insulating products according to DIN EN 12431 (compressibility)
  • Tensile strength, tear strength, transverse tensile 
    strength (DIN EN 1607/1608)
  • Compression behaviour according to DIN EN 826
  • Shear behaviour according to DIN EN 12090
  • Bending behaviour according to DIN EN 12089
  • Behaviour under point load according to DIN EN 12430
  • Dynamic stiffness according to DIN EN 29052-1
  • Coefficient of thermal expansion and contraction
    according to DIN EN 13471
  • Slump after vibration
  • Slump after climate testing at 40 °C / 90 % r. h.
  • Determination of compressive creep according to 
    DIN EN 1606 up to a thickness of 300 mm
  • Anchor pull-out strength according to ETAG 004

  • Determination of water absorption during brief partial immersion according to DIN EN 1609
  • Determination of water absorption during long-term 
    immersion according to DIN EN 12087
  • Water absorption by diffusion at 50/1 °C according
    to DIN EN 12088
  • Freeze-thaw cycles according to DIN EN 12091 and 
    pressure behaviour according to DIN EN 826
  • Determination of water vapour transmission properties according to DIN EN ISO 12572, DIN EN 12086, 
    DIN EN 13469
  • Conditioning to moisture equilibrium under specified
    temperature and humidity conditions according to 
    DIN EN 12429
  • Hygrothermal performance of building materials and 
    products according to DIN EN ISO 12571 (DIN 52620)
  • Moisture content according to DIN EN 322

  • Determination of dimensional stability under constant 
    normal laboratory conditions according to DIN EN 1603
  • Determination of dimensional stability under specified temperature and humidity conditions according
    to DIN EN 1604
  • Deformation under defined pressure and temperature conditions according to DIN EN 1605

  • Determination of volume percentage of closed cells 
    of rigid materials according to ISO 4590
  • Cell gas composition with a gas chromatograph
  • Determination of the chloride content of wood wall 
    panels according to DIN EN 13168
  • Determination of airflow resistance according to
    DIN EN 29053

Contact

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Claus Karrer