Friday, November 1, 2013

New Plastics Standards for the 3rd Quarter 2013

Document Center Inc. is pleased to announce that the following New Standards on Plastics in General are now available:


  • ASTM D542, 2013 Edition, Standard Test Method for Index of Refraction of Transparent Organic Plastics
  • ASTM D1044, 2013 Edition, Standard Test Method for Resistance of Transparent Plastics to Surface Abrasion
  • ASTM D1435, 2013 Edition, Standard Practice for Outdoor Weathering of Plastics
  • ASTM D1499, 2013 Edition, Standard Practice for Filtered Open-Flame Carbon-Arc Exposures of Plastics
  • ASTM D1708, 2013 Edition, Standard Test Method for Tensile Properties of Plastics by Use of Microtensile Specimens
  • ASTM D2583, 2013a Edition, Standard Test Method for Indentation Hardness of Rigid Plastics by Means of a Barcol Impressor
  • ASTM D2863, 2013 Edition, Standard Test Method for Measuring the Minimum Oxygen Concentration to Support Candle-Like Combustion of Plastics (Oxygen Index)
  • ASTM D4364, 2013 Edition, Standard Practice for Performing Outdoor Accelerated Weathering Tests of Plastics Using Concentrated Sunlight
  • ASTM D5279, 2013 Edition, Standard Test Method for Plastics: Dynamic Mechanical Properties: In Torsion
  • ASTM D5674, 2013 Edition, Standard Classification for Low Molecular Weight PTFE and FEP Micronized Powders
  • BS EN ISO 178, 2010 Edition with Amendment 1, Plastics. Determination of flexural properties
  • BS EN ISO 4892-3, 2013 Edition, Plastics. Methods of exposure to laboratory light sources. Fluorescent UV lamps
  • BS EN ISO 5659-2, Corrigendum 1, Plastics. Smoke generation. Determination of optical density by a single-chamber test
  • DIN EN ISO 75-1, 2013 Edition, Plastics - Determination of temperature of deflection under load - Part 1: General test method (ISO 75-1:2013)
  • DIN EN ISO 75-2, 2013 Edition, Plastics - Determination of temperature of deflection under load - Part 2: Plastics and ebonite (ISO 75-2:2013)
  • DIN EN ISO 180, 2013 Edition, Plastics - Determination of Izod impact strength (ISO 180:2000 + Amd.1:2006 + Amd.2:2013)
  • DIN EN ISO 4892-2, 2013 Edition, Plastics - Methods of exposure to laboratory light sources - Part 2: Xenon-arc lamps (ISO 4892-2:2013)
  • ISO 4892-3, 3rd Edition, Plastics - Methods of exposure to laboratory light sources - Part 3: Fluorescent UV lamps
  • ISO 4892-4, 3rd Edition, Plastics - Methods of exposure to laboratory light sources - Part 4: Open-flame carbon-arc lamps
  • ISO 30021, 1st Edition, Plastics - Burning behaviour - Intermediate-scale fire-resistance testing of fibre-reinforced polymer composites



Should you want to see similar standards, please visit our page Document Center List of Standards on Plastics in General.  Another handy resource is the Volume 8 series of the ASTM Complete Set of Standards.  Volume 08.01's contents are listed on our page ASTM Standards on Plastics - You'll find it most applicable to the standards above.  

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