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5 Agradecimientos
El autor desea agradecer a Alcan Cable,
compañía del grupo General Cable por la
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6 Referencias
1 John Hall Jr, Home Electrical Fires, National Fire
Protection Association Report, Enera de 2012
2 United States Standards Strategy, approved by the
ANSI board of Directors, 2 de Diciembre, 2010
3 Robert A Williams, Standards in an Open
International Trading System, NEMA
Electroindustry, P 10, Octubre 2006
4 Wikipedia and R. Sector, Chicago Tribune, 30 de
Diciembre, 1903
5 James A.Thomas,TheValue Factor, Standardization
News, Julio/Augusto 2012
6 Presidents Conference on Fire Prevention, Pueda
6-8, 1947, p 2
7 L Ingram, Standards – A Great Benefit, SPE 2004
ANTEC Proceedings, p 3885-3892
8 ASTM D149 Standard Test Method for Dielectric
Breakdown Voltage and Dielectric Strength of
Solid Electrical Insulation Materials at Commercial
Power Frequencies
9 ASTM D1531 Standard Test Methods for Relative
Permittivity (Dielectric Constant) and Dissipation
Factor by Fluid Displacement Procedures
10 ASTM D3756 Standard Test Method for Evaluation
of Resistance to Electrical Breakdown by Treeing in
Solid Dielectric Materials Using Diverging Fields
11 ASTM D4872 Standard Test Method for Dielectric
Testing of Wire and Cable Filling Compounds
12 ASTM D2303 Standard Test Methods for Liquid-
Contaminant, Inclined-Plane Tracking and Erosion
of Insulating Materials
13 ASTM D2132 Standard Test Method for Dust-and-
Fog Tracking and Erosion Resistance of Electrical
Insulating Materials
14 D470 Standard Test Methods for Crosslinked
Insulations and Jackets for Wire and Cable
15 UL 44 Thermoset-InsulatedWires and Cables
16 UL 83 Thermoplastic-InsulatedWires and Cables
17 ASTM D1929 Standard Test Method for
Determining Ignition Temperature of Plastics
18 ASTM D2863 Standard Test Method for Measuring
the Minimum Oxygen Concentration to Support
Candle-Like Combustion of Plastics (Oxygen Index)
19 ASTM D3801 Standard Test Method for Measuring
the Comparative Burning Characteristics of Solid
Plastics in a Vertical Position
20 ASTM D3874 Standard Test Method for Ignition of
Materials by Hot Wire Sources
21 ASTM D5424 Standard Test Method for Smoke
Obscuration of Insulating Materials Contained in
Electrical or Optical Fiber Cables When Burning in
a Vertical Cable Tray Configuration
22 ASTM D5485 Standard Test Method for
Determining the Corrosive Effect of Combustion
Products Using the Cone Corrosimeter
23 ASTM D5537 Standard Test Method for Heat
Release, Flame Spread, Smoke Obscuration, and
Mass LossTesting of InsulatingMaterials Contained
in Electrical or Optical Fiber Cables When Burning
in a Vertical Cable Tray Configuration
24 ASTM E662 Test Method for Specific Optical
Density of Smoke Generated by Solid Materials
25 UL 1685 Vertical-Tray Fire-Propagation and Smoke-
Release Test for Electrical and Optical-Fiber Cables
26 UL 2196 Tests for Fire Resistive Cables
27
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28 Adele Bassett, Consensus Building, Standardization
News, Pueda/Junio 2012, p 26-29
29 Website
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