ASTM WK93943
New Guide for Standard Guide for Design, Manufacture, Installation, Operation, Maintenance, Inspection and Major Modi?cation of Dry Slides
1. Scope
1.1 This practice applies to the classi?cation, design, manufacture, construction, major modi?cation, and operation of dry slide systems. 1.1.1 Owner/operator requirements of this standard are required of all dry slide systems regardless of date of construction. 1.1.2 The design, manufacture and construction of an existing dry slide or portions of a dry slide system unaffected by a major modi?cation shall meet the standard requirements in existence at the time of the construction. 1.2 Dry slide systems shall be de?ned as gravity rides intended for use by riders to be transported down a purpose-built path, where the action of the ride does not involve purposeful immersion of the rider’s body either in whole or in part in water, and does not use circulating water to mobilize or lubricate the rider’s transportation along a wheeled vehicle a purpose-built path. This includes slides used with or without accessories, including but not limited to mats, as de?ned below.Keywords
ride analysis; flumeRationale
While F2291 now incorporates previously "miscellaneous" ride types, the class of rides which are heavily patron-directed and/or do not feature ride vehicles are uncomfortable fits within F2291. This is why an F24.24 patron-directed task group exists, why lazy/action rivers are pursuing a separate standard within F24.70, and why adventure challenge areas and bungee jumps are pursuing new standards within F24.61. For many of the same reasons water slides developed their own standard in 2006, the time has come for dry slides to do the same. Even with patron-direction being solved, as a broad class of rides which will remain difficult to interpret within F2291's grammar, there is still a need for specific standardization for dry slides. Additionally, as the level of technical enhancement and risk has increased in recent slide designs, use of the comparatively antique language found in EN13814 is no longer sufficient.
Work Item Status
Date Initiated: 02-18-2025
Technical Contact: William Bussone
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