- Author
- National Bureau of Standards, Institute for Applied Technology
- Title
- Aluminum Branch Circuit Wiring in Residences. Summary Report for the Consumer Product Safety Commission January-September 1974. Summary Report.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NBSIR 75-723, June 1975, 91 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- electric wire | residential buildings
- Abstract
- This report is a compendium of information on aluminum wiring in residences, originally prepared for the Consumer Product Safety Commission. It contains a summary of experimental research carried on at the NBS laboratories on the problems of terminating aluminum wires to screw connections as well as other pressure connectors. Since this report is an overview of the technical aspects of the aluminum wiring problems, it also contains a review by NBS staff members of available material furnished by Underwriters Laboratories and Battelle Institute. Both of these institutions are major contributors to this particular field of information. The report also includes abstracts by NBS staff of some four volumes of testimony taken at public hearings at Washington, D. C. and Los Angeles, California during the spring of 1974. Additional information on the pertinent physical properties of aluminum, information on failure mechanisms, possible corrective actions, connector cycling tests, etc., is given in a brief literature survey and two relevant memoranda on the subject. The report concludes with a fairly extensive bibliography.