IDEAS FOR TESTS

Here are few ASTM test specifications that I would find useful in during the execution of your projects. You can find all of the current ASTM specs at the UW Engineering Library in the reference section, first floor, NE corner wall of the building, call no. 620.1 AME. If you don't feel like searching through the index book, go to www.astm.org and look in the standards section. There you can do a key work search. You cannot donwload specs from the website, you have to photocopy them from the library.

• ASTM E8 Tensile testing of metallics
• ASTM E9 Compression testing of metallics
• ASTM E23-02 Notched bar impact testing
• ASTM G52-00 Exposing and evaluating metals and alloys in surface seawater
• ASTM D695-96 Compressive properties of rigid plastics
• ASTM D6110.7 Charpy impact testing of plastics
• ASTM D256 Izod impact testing of plastics
• ASTM D638 Tensile Properties of plastics
• ASTM D5083-96 Tensile properties of reinforced thermosetting plastics

This is just a short list compiled here to expose you to what tests or style of tests you might want to conduct for you projects. If an idea behind some of the tests seem interesting to you, but you don't have the correct materials for the application listed in the spec, just talk to your TA, the lead TA, the professor, or the lab technician, and we will try to work something out.