EN 17368:2020

SLOVENSKI STANDARD
01-april-2020
Laminatne talne obloge - Ugotavljanje odpornosti proti udarcem z majhno kroglo
Laminate floor coverings - Determination of impact resistance with small ball
Laminatfußböden - Beständigkeit gegen Stossbeanspruchung mit Kleine Kugel
Revêtements de sol tratifié - Détermination de resistance à l'impact à la petite bille
Ta slovenski standard je istoveten z: EN 17368:2020
ICS:
97.150 Talne obloge Floor coverings
2003-01.Slovenski inštitut za standardizacijo. Razmnoževanje celote ali delov tega standarda ni dovoljeno.

EN 17368
EUROPEAN STANDARD
NORME EUROPÉENNE
February 2020
EUROPÄISCHE NORM
ICS 97.150
English Version
Laminate floor coverings - Determination of impact
resistance with small ball
Revêtements de sol stratifiés - Détermination de la Laminatböden - Bestimmung der Beständigkeit gegen
résistance aux chocs à l'aide d'une bille de petit Stoßbeanspruchung mit kleiner Kugel
diamètre
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Contents Page
European foreword . 3
1 Scope . 4
2 Normative references . 4
3 Terms and definitions . 4
4 Principle . 4
5 Apparatus . 4
6 Preparing and conditioning of test specimen . 6
7 Test procedure . 6
8 Calculation and expression of results . 7
9 Test report . 8
10 Precision . 8
Bibliography . 9

European foreword
This document (EN 17368:2020) has been prepared by Technical Committee CEN/TC 134 “Resilient,
textile and laminate floor coverings”, the secretariat of which is held by NBN.
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 August 2020, and conflicting national standards shall
be withdrawn at the latest by August 2020.
Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.
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, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland,
Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of
North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the
United Kingdom.
1 Scope
This document specifies a method of assessment of surface resistance to impact with a small ball tester
and relates to the surfaces of laminate floor coverings according to EN 13329, EN 14978 or EN 15468.
The test is generally carried out on parts of the laminate floor panels with suitable sizes.
2 Normative references
There are no normative references in this document.
3 Terms and definitions
For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.
ISO and IEC maintain terminological databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:
— IEC Electropedia: available at http://www.electropedia.org/
— ISO Online browsing platform: available at https://www.iso.org/obp/ui
3.1
test panel
laminate panel which is to be tested
3.2
test specimen
part of the test panel used for testing
3.3
test field
part of test surface affected by the impact stress and evaluated
4 Principle
The surfaces
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