Standardized Testing (ASTM, NACE, etc,)

Often times, specific testing per a certain standard (ASTM, NACE, etc.) is required of a product. Some of the most common standards we are asked to perform include the following:

ASTM Testing Methods
ASTM A90/A90M Weight of Zinc Coatings	ASTM G5 Potentiostatic / Potentiodynamic Anodic Polarization
ASTM A262 Practice A (Oxalic Acid Etch)	ASTM G28 Method A (Ferric Sulfate / Sulferic Acid)
ASTM A262 Practice B (Streicher Test)	ASTM G28 Method B (PEMT)
ASTM A262 Practice C (Huey Test)	ASTM G31 Immersion Testing
ASTM A262 Practice D (Modified Strauss Test)	ASTM G36 Boiling Magnesium Chloride
ASTM A380 Cleaning and Descaling Stainless Steels	ASTM G44 Alternate Immersion Testing
ASTM A923 SSAT Duplex Stainless Steels	ASTM G47 Stress Corrosion Cracking of Aluminum
ASTM B813 Liquid and Paste Fluxes for Soldering Copper	ASTM G48 Method A (Ferric Chloride Pitting)
ASTM B154 Mercurous Nitrate - Copper and Copper Alloys	ASTM G48 Method B (Ferric Chloride Crevice)
ASTM C871 Extraction of Leachable Ions	ASTM G48 Method C (Ferric Chloride Critical Pitting)
ASTM D1141 Ocean Water	ASTM G48 Method D (Ferric Chloride Critical Crevice Temperature)
ASTM D1193 Reagent Water	ASTM G49 Constant Load Test
ASTM D2240 Rubber Property Durometer Hardness	ASTM G61 Cyclic Potentiodynamic
ASTM D2583 Barcol Hardness	ASTM G71 Galvanic Couple Test
ASTM D4340 Pressurized Hot Wall	ASTM G75 Miller Weat Test
ASTM E3 Standard Metallographic Practice	ASTM G102 Calculation or Corrosion Rates from E/C Measurements
ASTM E45 Inclusion Content	ASTM G108 E/C Reactivation for Detecting Sensitization
ASTM E112 Grain Size	ASTM G123 Boiling Sodium/Calcium/Lithium Chloride
ASTM F746 Medical Implants	ASTM G150 Critical Pitting Temperature
ASTM F2129 E/C Testing of Surgical Implants in Hank's Solution	ASTM G3 Conventions Applicable to E/C Measurements
ASTM G1 Preparation, Cleaning, Evaluating Test Specimens

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