The German Institute for Standards

The most important tests on bonded joints are targeted at the determination of the strength under precisely defined conditions. In order to obtain comparable results from such tests on different test stations, for example, at the adhesive manufacturer and the adhesive user, the test conditions have to be stipulated in detail and must be binding. For this purpose, test standards have been issued by the German Institute for Standardization (DIN) and the European Standards (EN) in cooperation with interested technical groups. The standards for tests in the held of adhesive technology, for example, contain indications regarding material and dimensions of test pieces, the test method to be applied (test equipment, test speed), if required even surface pretreatment of test pieces and other test criteria to be taken into account. 

Technology (NIST), formerly the National Bureau of Standards founded in 1918, is responsible for maintaining both scientific and commercial metrology in the United States. Its mission is to promote American innovation and competitiveness and supplies industry, academia and government with certified standard reference materials, including documentation for procedures, quality control, and materials for calibration. The German Institute for Standards (DIN) was founded in 1917 while in the United Kingdom the BSI was formed in 1901. 

DIN Deutsches Institut fiir Normung, the German Institute for Standardization... 

Method validation guidelines for use in trace analysis have been proposed by various authors, but there is little consistency in the recommended approaches. The general validation guidelines proposed by standards organizations such as ISO (International Organization for Standardization), DIN (Deutsches Institut fUr Normung German Institute for Standardization) and others are often not well defined and consequently... 

Needless to say that the Deutsche Institut fur Normung (DIN, German Institute for Standardization) has determined the minimum values of break-through times of filters under standard testing conditions. These conditions are ... 

A number of specifications and codes of practice are followed throughout the world for rubber lining, the major ones being from the ASTM, the BS Specifications, the German Institute for Standardisation (DIN) and the Japanese Industrial Standards (JIS) which give exhaustive information on rubber lining procedures, testing methods and code of practice. 

DIN 55992, Part 1, 2—Determination of a parameter for the dust formation of pigments and extenders Part 1 Rotation method/ Part 2 Drop method, DIN German Institute for Standardization, 2005, 1999. 

The standardized DIN (Deutsches Institut fiir Normung, German Institute for Standardization) test methods, which are universally and easily applicable, are the most reliable analysis methods. They include the determination of hydrolytic resistance (by two grain-titration methods and one surface method), of acid resistance to hydrochloric acid, and of alkali resistance to a mixture of alkaline solutions. Details are described... 

Relevant standards can be researched, ordered and, more recently, viewed at the expense of the user via the websites of standards organizations sueh as German Institute for Standardization (Deutsches Institut fur Normung (DIN), www.din.de or www.beuth.de), Austrian Standards Institute (Osterreichisches Normungsinstitut, www.on-norm.at), Swiss Stan-... 

The Deutsche Elektrotechnische Kommission (DKE) is in charge of designing standards and regulations for the electrotechnical sector for Germany. The three institutes for this job are the DIN (Deutsches Institut fiir Normung German Institute for Standardization), the DKE (Deutsche Kommission fur Elektrotechnik German Electrotechnical Commission), and the VDE (Verein Deutscher Elektro-... 

Fig. 5.6 Didier Astruc (bom 1946 in Versailles) studied chemistry at the University of Rennes, where he received his Ph.D. with Professor Rene Dabard in 1975. He then moved to MIT as a NATO Postdoctoral Fellow, where he worked with the 2005 Nobel laureate Richard R. Schrock. After being a Lecturer and Master Lecturer at the University Institute for Technology of Saint-Nazaire, he worked for the CNRS at Rennes where he became Maitre de Recherche in 1982. Since 1983 he is Professor of Chemistry at the University of Bordeaux I and has been promoted to the exceptional class of university professors in 1996. His research interests comprise preparative and mechanistic organometallic chemistry, catalysis, and electron transfer processes. More recently, he has developed the synthesis and supramolecular electronics of organometallic dendrimers. He is the author of Electron Transfer and Radical Processes in Transition-Metal Chemistry and of the standard textbook Organometallic Chemistry and Catalysis . A recipient of several major research awards, Didier is also a senior member of the Institut Universitaire de France, a member of the Academia Europeae, London, and the German Academy Leopoldina, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (photo by courtesy from D. A.)...

Materials (ASTM), European Committee for Standardization (CEN), German Institute of Standardization, Japanese Industrial Standards and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). 

In Germany flame arresters are tested in accordance with the TRbE standard (Technical Rules for Inflammable Liquids) and approved by the German Eederal Physical-Technical Institute (PTB) and the German Eed-eral Institute for Material Research and Testing (BAM). However, this standard will be superseded by the new CEN standard. 

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