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ASTM D2247 – Standard Practice for Testing Water Resistance of Coatings in 100 % Relative Humidity Description: Significance and Use 4.1 Water can cause the degradation of coatings, so knowledge of how a coating resists water is helpful for assessing how it will perform in actual service. Failure in tests at 100 % relative humidity may be caused …
ASTM D2244 – Standard Practice for Calculation of Color Tolerances and Color Differences from Instrumentally Measured Color Coordinates Description: Significance and Use 5.1 The original CIE color scales based on tristimulus values X, Y, Z and chromaticity coordinates x, y are not uniform visually. Each subsequent color scale based on CIE values has had weighting factors applied to provide some …
ASTM D2243 – Standard Test Method for Freeze-Thaw Resistance of Water-Borne Coatings Description: Significance and Use 4.1 When water-borne coatings are shipped during cold weather, they may experience cycles of freezing and thawing. Cycles of freezing and thawing cause more damage to water-borne coatings than when the coatings are subjected to steady freezing. Scope 1.1 This test …
ASTM D2240 – Standard Test Method for Rubber Property—Durometer Hardness Description: Significance and Use 4.1 This test method is based on the penetration of a specific type of indentor when forced into the material under specified conditions. The indentation hardness is inversely related to the penetration and is dependent on the elastic modulus and viscoelastic behavior …
ASTM D2238 – Standard Test Methods for Absorbance of Polyethylene Due to Methyl Groups at 1378 cm−1 Description: Significance and Use 4.1 When interpreted with the aid of appropriate calibration data, either test method is acceptable for use to compare the total methyl contents of polyethylenes made by similar processes. Data on infrared absorption at certain …
ASTM D2236 – Standard Method of Test for Dynamic Mechanical Properties of Plastics by Means of a Torsional Pendulum
ASTM D2229 – Standard Test Method for Adhesion Between Steel Tire Cords and Rubber (Withdrawn 2023) Description: Significance and Use 5.1 This test method is considered satisfactory for the acceptance testing of commercial shipments of steel tire cord because current estimates of between-laboratory precision for single materials are considered acceptable and the method has been used …
ASTM D2228 – Standard Test Method for Rubber Property—Relative Abrasion Resistance by Pico Abrader Method Description: Significance and Use 4.1 This test method may be used to estimate the relative abrasion resistance of subject materials as described in 1.1. No correlation between this accelerated test and service performance is given or implied, due, in part, to the …
ASTM D2222 – Standard Test Method for Methanol Extract of Vinyl Chloride Resins Description: Significance and Use 5.1 The methanol extract test is most commonly employed with paste- or dispersion-type vinyl resins intended for organosol or plastisol applications. The test result is a quantitative measure of the methanol-soluble, nonvolatile, essentially nonpolymeric content of the virgin, unmodified …
ASTM D2216 – Standard Test Methods for Laboratory Determination of Water (Moisture) Content of Soil and Rock by Mass Description: Significance and Use 5.1 For many materials, the water content is one of the most significant properties used in establishing a correlation between soil behavior and its index properties. 5.2 The water content of a material is …
