The properties of rubber and plastics are very diverse. ASTM standards provide a crucial role in confirming the validity of the information used to make decisions about materials in industries that ...

The ISO 15630-3, ASTM A416 and ASTM A1061 test standards offer guidelines for testing steel strands. Manufacturers of steel strands are required, through product standards, to test their products ...

My March column addressed flexural test methods for composite materials. I noted that the details presented in the various available national and international standards were not mutually consistent ...

(Chicago, IL) - The 2013 edition of Selected ASTM Standards for Structural Steel Fabrication (AISC 503-13) is now available from the American Institute of Steel Construction in paper format for just ...

The performance of the final product depends heavily on the degree of cure - making it critical to ensure that the reaction goes to completion for the highest quality and reliability. Achieving this ...

Although realized in 1983, ASTM's standrad test method for determining bacterial retention of membrane filters used for liquid filtration is still hugely beneficial to today's pharmaceutical industry.

A proposed recovered carbon black (rCB) standard developed by a committee of West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania-based ASTM International could provide a boost to the production of rCB in the United ...