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ASTM International presented its top annual award – the 2024 Award of Merit – to Seymour Sweet for his contributions to ASTM’s reactive and refractory metals and alloys committee ( B10 ). The prestigious award, which includes the accompanying title of fellow, is ASTM’s highest recognition for distinguished service and outstanding participation in ASTM International committee activities. Sweet…, Media Inquiries:, Gavin O’Reilly, tel +1.610.832.9618; goreilly@astm.org Release #11848 ###
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ASTM International’s sports equipment, playing surfaces, and facilities committee ( F08 ) is working on a standard, WK81691 , for testing helmet performance during rotational loading. Helmet standards testing involves dropping a helmeted headform onto a perpendicular surface and measuring the resulting linear forces. The new standard will subject helmeted headforms to angled impacts (common in…, Media Inquiries:, Gavin O’Reilly, tel +1.610.832.9618; goreilly@astm.org, Committee Contact:, Joe Koury, tel +1.610.969.8455; jkoury@astm.org Release #11846 ###
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ASTM International’s sports equipment, playing surfaces, and facilities committee ( F08 ) has developed a new standard, F3641 , on child bicycle carriers. F3641 provides clear specifications on front-mounted child bicycle carriers, located between the rider and handlebars of a bike. These bicycle carriers transport children with a minimum weight of 12 kg and a maximum weight of 27 kg who are…, Media Inquiries:, Gavin O’Reilly, tel +1.610.832.9618; goreilly@astm.org, Committee Contact:, Joe Koury, tel +1.610.969.8455; jkoury@astm.org Release #11827 ###
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Papers are invited for ASTM International’s 21st International Symposium on Zirconium in the Nuclear Industry , to be held April 14-17, 2025, in Aix-en-Provence, France. The event is sponsored by ASTM International’s reactive and refractory metals and alloys committee ( B10 ) and will be held in conjunction with the committee’s standards development meetings. The purpose of the symposium is to…, Symposia Operations Contact:, Tammy Schane tel+1.610.832.9522, symposia@astm.org Release #11823 ###
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ASTM International’s additive manufacturing technologies committee ( F42 ) is developing a suite of proposed standards that will be used for quality assurance and quality control of materials and components used for additive construction with cementitious materials. The suite includes the following: Practice for Additive Manufacturing -- Fresh and Very Early Age Properties of Concretes Used for…, Media Inquiries:, Gavin O’Reilly, tel +1.610.832.9618; goreilly@astm.org, Committee Contact:, Pat Picariello, tel +1.610.832.9720; ppicariello@astm.org Release #11820 ###
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Wohlers Associates, powered by ASTM International, has announced Wohlers Report 2024 . The report, published for 29 consecutive years, provides organizations worldwide with detailed guidance, perspective, and research results on the additive manufacturing (AM) and 3D printing industry. Shipment of AM systems for metal parts, as shown in the following graph, increased by 24.4% in 2023. Wohlers…, A graph of sales Description automatically generated, Source: Wohlers Report 2024 “Investors, government agencies, and organizations adopting AM are eager to know what will drive growth in the future,” said Terry Wohlers, head of advisory services and market intelligence at Wohlers Associates. “Significant expansion will come from a much wider range of applications and demand for end-use parts. For this to occur, systems will become faster, reducing…, Media Inquiries:, Gavin O’Reilly, tel +1.610.832.9618; goreilly@astm.org Release #11810 ###
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ASTM International’s plastics committee ( D20 ) has revised an important standard that supports using radiocarbon analysis to determine the biobased content of solid, liquid and gaseous samples. The revision includes an update of the atmospheric adjustment factor (REF) value that is used in product analysis for biobased and biogenic carbon content. The revised standard ( D6866 ) is used to report…, Media Inquiries:, Gavin O’Reilly, tel +1.610.832.9618; goreilly@astm.org, Committee Contact:, Alyson Fick, tel +1.610.832.9710; afick@astm.org Release #11787 ###
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Registration has opened for ASTM’s Additive Manufacturing (AM) Medical Device Verification Workshop, to be held virtually on, March 19, 2024, . The workshop is organized by ASTM’s additive manufacturing technologies committee ( F42 ), more specifically its AM medical applications subcommittee (F42.07.03). According to ASTM member Ryan Kircher of rms Company, this free workshop will help drive the future of additive manufactured medical device testing by pinpointing key new standards that could benefit from either standardization or…, Committee Contact:, Tessa Llewelyn, tel +1.610.832.9677 ; tllewelyn@astm.org Release #11784 ###
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ASTM International’s plastics committee ( D20 ) presented its Robert MacFarlane Award of Excellence to Kelvin Okamoto, president of Green Bottom Line, Inc., his own sustainability consulting firm. The award is the highest in D20, and honors exemplary technical contributions, sustained participation, and valued leadership in ASTM International’s plastics committee. Okamoto was specifically…, Media Inquiries:, Gavin O’Reilly, tel +1.610.832.9618; goreilly@astm.org Release #11777 ###
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ASTM International’s reactive and refractory metals and alloys committee (B10) has awarded its 2023 H.R. “Russ” Ogden Award to Bruce Beckwith, retired consultant for Astrocosmos Metallurgical Inc. Established by the committee in honor of its first chair, this award is given for outstanding accomplishments in the science and technology of reactive and refractory metals and alloys. An ASTM…, Media Inquiries:, Gavin O’Reilly, tel +1.610.832.9618; goreilly@astm.org Release #11772 ###