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ASTM International Articles
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By the Numbers
In a sense, metrology makes the world go around. It can quantify how long it takes the Earth to rotate, and the science of weights and measurements underpins everything from telling time to ensuring the fairness of international trade agreements. ...
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A Smaller Footprint - Sustainable Processes for Manufacturing
Manufacturers working to adopt sustainable practices will find support from a new ASTM International guide. This standard (E2986, Guide for Evaluation of Environmental Aspects of Sustainability of Manufacturing Processes) will serve as a key ...
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Enhancing Your Role as a Standards Professional
This article draws on and adds to previous articles in this series. Taken together, these articles describe how standards professionals can enhance their role and value in corporate planning and better address CEO needs. But what knowledge, skills ...
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Ensuring Water Quality in Africa
Water is essential for life, and “access to safe water is a fundamental human and, therefore, a basic human right.” With this statement and his address on World Water Day in 2001, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan put a ...
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Enhancing Your Role as a Standards Professional: Part 3: Maximizing the Value of Your Participation in Standards Development
A mindmap can help standards professionals communicate the complex connections of standards development, business benefits and the details of both: here’s what to consider. It is difficult to overestimate the importance of standards to ...
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NTSB Investigates
An independent U.S. government agency uses everything at its disposal, including ASTM standards, to determine the causes of transportation and pipeline accidents. An airplane battery catches on fire. A gas pipeline explodes. A bridge collapses. ...
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Enhancing Your Role as a Standards Professional, Part 2: Maximizing Input into Strategic Planning
By providing input into roadmapping and scenario planning, you can make your technical committee work relevant to your company’s strategic plan. The first article in this series (“The Elevator Speech”) showed how to introduce the ...
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Building Safety Redefined
Buildings today can meet societal and personal needs like never before, and standards are part of the picture. Robert A. Ivy, CEO of the American Institute of Architects, explains. How do you think building safety will be redefined in this century? ...
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Enhancing Your Role as a Standards Professional - Part 1: The Elevator Speech
You know your participation in standards development is critical to your company, but does your company recognize this? Do you have the support and resources you need? Here’s how to develop a quick summary of what you do and what you need that ...
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Infrastructure Maintenance - An Economic Opportunity
Public safety and the cost of doing business are deeply impacted when infrastructure is neglected. Here’s a look at the high cost of low maintenance and what can be done about it. A Bridge Too Far There are over 607,000 bridges in the United ...
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Interview with Ronald Ebelhar, 2015 Chairman of the ASTM Board
Ron Ebelhar has provided leadership in civil engineering projects and ASTM technical committee work since the 1970s. This year, he brings his experience to his elected position as chairman of the ASTM board of directors. You have worked on dozens ...
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Going Small
There once was a time when science and engineering were considered not only good ways to make a living but maybe even “cool.” Today, with changes in aptitudes and priorities,1 young people are less inclined to consider the challenges of ...
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Getting to Ballot
For the new year, your next committee activity and your newer members, we offer a few suggestions about a more efficient standards development process. The suggestions come from staff managers in ASTM’s Technical Committee Operations division, ...
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The Many Uses of Activated Carbon
Activated carbon is processed to have small, low-volume pores that increase the surface area available for adsorption. It has applications in the medical, environmental and energy realms, among others. Since 1962, ASTM Committee D28 on Activated ...
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A Promising Future for Butanol
With several beneficial attributes that make it a good blending agent in gasoline, butanol continues to hold promise for use as a biofuel. It is compatible with existing vehicles and refueling infrastructure. Low vapor pressure, high octane number ...
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Manufacturing: Poised for Growth
An Interview with Jay Timmons, President and CEO of the National Association of Manufacturers According to the National Association of Manufacturers, an estimated 17.4 million jobs in the United States — about one in six private sector jobs ...
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Get the Lead Out - Standards Aid in RoHS Compliance
RoHS, the seminal European sustainability directive, and others like it challenge manufacturers to eliminate hazardous substances in their products. With RoHS compliance deadlines ongoing through at least the next five years, and more to come from ...
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Combating Corrosion - Committee G01 Standards Fight Nature’s Destructive Tendencies
The evening news may leave many of us feeling war-weary, but one ASTM International technical committee has been successful in conflict of a different sort. It’s a commonplace but epic struggle between the natural and civilized worlds — ...
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Nutrition Labels for Products
In today’s competitive marketplace, providing a verified EPD can help your product stand out as more sustainable. Here’s how to get it done. You know your product is environmentally friendly. It’s more sustainable because your ...
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Testing for Equivalence - Why the TOST Procedure Works
Q: What statistical procedures are used to demonstrate that two sets of test results are equivalent? A: Changes are often made in laboratory operations for expansion or improvement, and these may involve new apparatus, personnel, test methods or ...