The Maritime Safety Committee
Clasification Society 2024 - Version 9.40
Statutory Documents - IMO Publications and Documents - Circulars - Maritime Safety Committee - MSC/Circular.732 – Interim Guidelines on the Test Procedure for Demonstrating the Equivalence of Composite Materials to Steel Under the Provisions of the 1974 SOLAS Convention – (Adopted on 28 June 1996) - The Maritime Safety Committee

The Maritime Safety Committee

  1 The Maritime Safety Committee, at its sixty-sixth session (28 May to 6 June 1996), noting the necessity of establishing an international test procedure for composite material to be used as an equivalent material to steel under the provisions of SOLAS chapter II-2, approved Interim Guidelines on the test procedures for demonstrating the equivalence of composite materials to steel, as set out in the annex.

  2 The Interim Guidelines are intended to provide a test procedure to demonstrate the ability of composite materials which are used as load-bearing "A" or "B" class divisions to withstand the applied loads during and at the end of fire, when applying the standard fire test procedure to "A", "B" and "F" class divisions, adopted by the Organization by resolution A.754(18) and additional tests on small specimens to determine the high temperature strength properties of the material.

  3 Member Governments are invited to:

  • .1 use the Interim Guidelines when demonstrating the equivalence of composite materials to steel under the provisions of SOLAS regulation II-2/3.7; and

  • .2 encourage research and studies on composite materials and provide the Organization with the results of any relevant studies as well as information on the experience gained from the use of these Interim Guidelines.

  4 The Committee agreed that, in view of the interim nature of the guidelines, they should be reviewed, as necessary, after sufficient information is obtained as requested in paragraph 3.2 above.

Parent topic: MSC/Circular.732 – Interim Guidelines on the Test Procedure for Demonstrating the Equivalence of Composite Materials to Steel Under the Provisions of the 1974 SOLAS Convention – (Adopted on 28 June 1996)
Copyright 2022 Clasifications Register Group Limited, International Maritime Organization, International Labour Organization or Maritime and Coastguard Agency. All rights reserved. Clasifications Register Group Limited, its affiliates and subsidiaries and their respective officers, employees or agents are, individually and collectively, referred to in this clause as 'Clasifications Register'. Clasifications Register assumes no responsibility and shall not be liable to any person for any loss, damage or expense caused by reliance on the information or advice in this document or howsoever provided, unless that person has signed a contract with the relevant Clasifications Register entity for the provision of this information or advice and in that case any responsibility or liability is exclusively on the terms and conditions set out in that contract.