American Society for Testing and Materials International

ASTM (formerly American Society for Testing and Materials) International is a global fomm for the development of consensus standards organized in 1898, ASTM International is one of the largest voluntary standards developing organizations in the world. More than 12,000 ASTM standards can be found in the 80+-volume Annual Book of ASTM Standards. 

L. Veleva, M. A. Alpuches-Aviles, Outdoor atmospheric corrosion, ASTM, STP 1421, H.E. Townsend, Ed. American Society for Testing and Materials International, West Conshochoken, PA, 2002. 

Standard test method for determining flammability characteristics of plastics and other solid materials using microscale combustion calorimetry, ASTM D 7309-07, American Society for Testing and Materials (International), West Conshohocken, PA, 2007. 

American Society for Testing and Materials International Commission on Illumination charge transfer particle diameter diffuse reflectance... 

ASTM (2005a) ASTM D143-94. Standard test for small clear specimens of timber. American Society for Testing and Materials International, West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania ASTM (2005b) ASTMD198-05. Standard methods of static tests of lumber in structural sizes. American Society for Testing and Materials International, West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania... 

American National Standard Institute American Society for Testing and Materials International Committee of Weights and Measures Double-Wavelength Radiation Thermometer International Practical Temperature Scale International Practical Temperature Scale of 1968 Instrument Society of America International Organization of Standardization International Temperature Scale International Temperature Scale of 1990 National Bureau of Standards... 

Sources of information are the websites of the Intemalional Organization for Standardization (ISO), the American Society for Testing and Materials International (ASTM) and the Japanese Standards Association (JSA) that issues Japan Industrial Standards (JIS) documents. Data from scientific and technical journals and information from materials manufacturers and users available through the internet have also been used. An important source of information on composites testing and materials data are Refs [9—11], which was issued by ASTM, and its revision and extension, which is currentiy prepared by a nonprofit organization (i.e. the Composite Materials Handbook 17 version G) [12]. 

The literature on NDT of polymers and PMC comprises the classes shown in Table 1. References illustrate the available range of literature or a specific topic. Omission or inclusion of a reference does not imply a rating by the authors. The amount of information available in electronic format only is steadily increasing, eg, References 2-8, and many journals feature electronic on-line editions. Electronic database searches are sensitive to spelling, eg, non-destructive yields 27, and nondestructive 384, active standards of the American Society for Testing and Materials International. Most NDT methods apply to various material classes. Those documents that explicitly mention polymers or PMC deal with effects specific to certain materials, eg, the Felicity effect in PMC (9), or with polymer products used in large quantities (10-14). Standards tend to lag behind technical developments, as discussed for acoustic emission (15), but similar arguments hold for other NDT methods. 

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