IS 3144 : 2024

What this standard covers

This standard prescribes the methods of test for mineral wool thermal insulation materials.

Scope, quoted from IS 3144 : 1992 — the 1992 edition in the public archive, not the current IS 3144 : 2024. Read the full standard

The BIS registry lists the current edition as IS 3144 : 2024. The publicly archived copy quoted here is the 1992 edition, so wording and requirements may have changed since. Check the official BIS listing for what is in force.

Requirements and tests, as the standard names them

• 7.2 Test Specimens
• 8.1 Number of Tests
• 16.4 Measurement of Temperature of Tube
• 18.3.2 Pans
• 18.3.3 Glass Squares
• 23.1 Test Specimen
• 23.2 Number of Test Specimens

Sub-clause names as printed under the headings “INCOMBUSTIBILITY TEST”, “ODOUR EMISSION TEST”, and those whose printed names themselves say “Test” in IS 3144 : 1992 (the 1992 archived edition; BIS lists 2024 as current). Values and limits are deliberately not reproduced here — read them in the standard itself.

How the standard is organised

• 17 DETERMINATION OF RESISTANCE TO MICRO-ORGANISMS
• 4 SAMPLING
• 5 QUALITY OF REAGENTS
• 6 DETERMINATION OF LENGTH AND WTOTH
• 7 DETERMINATION OF THICKNESS
• 8 DETERMINATION OF RESISTANCE TO COMPRESSION
• 9 DETERMINATION OF BULK DENSITY
• 11 TEST FOR THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY
• 12 TEST FOR MAXIMUM RECOMMENDED
• 13 DETERMINATION OF SHOT CONTENT
• 14 DETERMINATION OF MOISTURE
• 16 INCOMBUSTIBILITY TEST
• 18 ODOUR EMISSION TEST
• 19 DETERMINATION OF SULPHUR
• 20 DETERMINATION OF OIL
• 21 DETERMINATION OF CARBON (TOTAL)
• 22 DETERMINATION OF SETTLING DUE
• 8 MILD STEEL
• 23 DETERMINATION OF WATER VAPOUR
• 24 DETERMINATION OF FIBRE DIAMETER
• 25 TEST FOR ALKALINITY
• 26 DETERMINATION OF CHLORIDE
• 27 DETERMINATION OF ORGANIC

Test methods it refers to

• IS 3144

Edition history (per the BIS registry)

• IS 3144 : 2024 — current edition

Where this standard is used on NirmanDost

Listed by product makers

3 products in the NirmanDost catalogue name this standard on their spec sheets — ROCKINSUL Building Rolls, ROCKINSUL RB Slabs, TUFFINSUL Rigid Slabs. That is the maker’s own claim, copied as printed; we have not tested these products against the standard, and a spec sheet can cite the wrong code.