Wednesday, April 23, 2014

New Plastics Standards for the 1st Quarter 2014

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


  • ASTM D542, 2014 Edition, Standard Test Method for Index of Refraction of Transparent Organic Plastics
  • ASTM D1600, 2014 Edition, Standard Terminology for Abbreviated Terms Relating to Plastics
  • ASTM G21, 2013 Edition, Standard Practice for Determining Resistance of Synthetic Polymeric Materials to Fungi
  • BS EN 15534-1, 2014 Edition, Composites made from cellulose-based materials and thermoplastics (usually called wood-polymer composites (WPC) or natural fibre composites (NFC)). Test methods for characterisation of compounds and products
  • BS EN ISO 15791-1, 2013 Edition, Plastics. Development and use of intermediate-scale fire tests for plastics products. General guidance
  • BS ISO 11358-3, 2013 Edition, Plastics. Thermogravimetry (TG) of polymers. Determination of the activation energy using the Ozawa-Friedman plot and analysis of the reaction kinetics
  • BS ISO 11359-1, 2014 Edition, Plastics. Thermomechanical analysis (TMA). General principles
  • BS ISO 11443, 2014 Edition, Plastics. Determination of the fluidity of plastics using capillary and slit-die rheometers
  • BS ISO 15850, 2014 Edition, Plastics. Determination of tension-tension fatigue crack propagation. Linear elastic fracture mechanics  (LEFM) approach
  • BS ISO 29221, 2014 Edition, Plastics. Determination of mode I plane-strain crack-arrest toughness
  • DIN EN ISO 4892-3, 2014 Edition, Plastics - Methods of exposure to laboratory light sources - Part 3: Fluorescent UV lamps (ISO 4892-3:2013)
  • ISO 11359-1, 2nd Edition, Plastics - Thermomechanical analysis (TMA) - Part 1: General principles
  • ISO 11443, 3rd Edition, Plastics - Determination of the fluidity of plastics using capillary and slit-die rheometers
  • ISO 15791-1, 2nd Edition, Plastics - Development and use of intermediate-scale fire tests for plastics products - Part 1: General guidance
  • ISO 15850, 2nd Edition, Plastics - Determination of tension-tension fatigue crack propagation - Linear elastic fracture mechanics (LEFM) approach
  • ISO 29221, 1st Edition, Plastics - Determination of mode I plane-strain crack-arrest toughness


For similar standards, please see our Document Center List of Standards on Plastics in General.

And you'll also want to review my 2 previous blogs: