{"id":134,"date":"2007-01-25T08:57:43","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T08:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jpyro.com\/wp\/?p=134"},"modified":"2007-01-25T08:59:30","modified_gmt":"2007-01-25T08:59:30","slug":"a-practical-performance-testing-protocol-for-fireworks-mortar-tubes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/?p=134","title":{"rendered":"A Practical Performance Testing Protocol for Fireworks Mortar Tubes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Andrew Fischer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>ABSTRACT: <\/strong>The author&rsquo;s development of an alternative design for a fireworks mortar coincided with the restructure of regulations concerning display fireworks in the State of Queensland, Australia. This new Code of Practice for the Display of Outdoor Fireworks has a requirement for manufacturers of equipment to develop performancebased tests that will prove the safety and suitability of plant and equipment used. The authorities proposed that a mortar tube was to be given a service life of five years. This article describes a protocol that has been successfully put into practice to test the new mortar tube. The protocol is called the Five Year Accelerated Test Program or &ldquo;FYATP&rdquo;.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Keywords:<\/strong> mortar, plastic tube, service life, polyethylene<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8211;<br \/> Ref: JPyro, Issue 20, 2004, pp51-54<br \/> (J20_51)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Fischer ABSTRACT: The author&rsquo;s development of an alternative design for a fireworks mortar coincided with the restructure of regulations concerning display fireworks in the State of Queensland, Australia. This new Code of Practice for the Display of Outdoor Fireworks has a requirement for manufacturers of equipment to develop performancebased tests that will prove the &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/?p=134\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Practical Performance Testing Protocol for Fireworks Mortar Tubes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jpyro.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}