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Subcommittee A05.13 on Structural Shapes and Hardware Specifications is currently working on proposed new standards that would be used by engineers and architects who design with steel fabrications. These proposed standards will be used to evaluate the costs of steel construction over the lifetime of a project and to compare different corrosion protection systems on their impact to this lifetime…
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Mass casualty events, including both natural disasters and man-made events, subject caregivers, patients and medical equipment to environmental extremes. A new standard being developed by ASTM International Committee F30 on Emergency Medical Services provides guidance for how medical equipment is expected to perform under the severe conditions of a mass casualty event. The proposed standard, ASTM…
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ASTM International Committee A05 on Metallic-Coated Iron and Steel Products has approved a new standard, ASTM A1059/A1059M , Specification for Zinc Alloy Thermo-Diffusion Coatings (TDC) on Steel Fasteners, Hardware and Other Products. The new standard is under the jurisdiction of Subcommittee A05.13 on Structural Shapes and Hardware Specifications. The technology described in ASTM A1059/A1059M…
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Galvanized steel products are manufactured and used throughout the world. A new ASTM International standard, A1057/A1057M , Specification for Steel, Structural Tubing, Cold Formed, Welded, Carbon, Zinc-Coated (Galvanized) by the Hot-Dip Process, addresses the galvanizing process as it is used across a variety of industries, including construction, automotive and transportation. The new standard…
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A request from the United States Navy was the impetus behind the development of a new ASTM International standard, E2630 , Test Method for Luminance Ratio of a Fluorescent Specimen Using a Narrow Band Source. The new standard was developed by Subcommittee E12.05 on Fluorescence, part of ASTM International Committee E12 on Color and Appearance. Richard Harold, consultant, Color and Appearance…
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First generation gonioapparent colorants are materials pigmented with metal flakes that change lightness as illumination angles change. Used heavily in automotive coatings, the first generation of gonioapparent materials was covered by ASTM International standard E2194 , Practice for Multiangle Color Measurement of Metal Flake Pigmented Materials, first published in 2003. Now, a second generation…
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ASTM International Committee E12 on Color and Appearance has approved a new standard that describes techniques for planning and analyzing the results of an interlaboratory study conducted for certain test methods within E12. E 2480 , Practice for Conducting an Interlaboratory Study to Determine the Precision of a Test Method with Multi-Valued Measurands, is under the jurisdiction of Subcommittee…
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ASTM International Committee A05 on Metallic-Coated Iron and Steel Products will host a workshop, Hazardous Substances Affecting Metallic-Coated Steel and Other Metals, on May 23, 2007, during ASTM Committee Week in Norfolk, Va. The workshop will begin at 8:00 a.m. The topic will be the European Parliament and Council Directive on the Restrictions and use of certain Hazardous Substances in…
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A proposed new standard currently being developed by ASTM International Committee F01 on Electronics will prove to be useful to the tantalum sputtering target industry. The proposed standard, WK9490, Test Method for Reporting Crystallographic Orientation of Sputtering Target Materials, is under the jurisdiction of Subcommittee F01.17 on Sputter Metallization. "The tantalum sputtering target…
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ASTM International Committee F01 on Electronics is currently developing a proposed new standard that will provide uniformity in the values reported for oxygen content in aluminum alloys used for sputtering targets in the manufacture of integrated circuits. The proposed standard, WK9120, Determination of Oxygen in High Purity Aluminum and Alloys in High Purity Aluminum Base by Inert Gas Fusion…