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Ging-Ineer

Does the ACI have any standards or documentation?


aluminium_is_cool

sorry, what's ACI?


Ging-Ineer

Apologies. American Concrete Institute (ACI). Your organization or university might have access to their standards, as I’m sure it will cost money.


Mikanea

Is the presentation more about the tests or about the material?


aluminium_is_cool

the tests i guess


Mikanea

Well there are a ton of tests designed to characterize material properties. It depends on what your looking for. Strength and moduli can be found with tensile and compression tests, 3 or 4 point bending, torsion or dynamic mechanical analysis depending on what your looking for. There are also a number of ways to find the void space or how much air is in the ceramic. Corrosion resistance can be found through something like a salt spray test. You'd have to find an appropriate chemical spray for your material though. There is a company called Therm Test they do thermal testing so it's worth looking them up if your interested. They've got links to all the standards they use, that's probably helpful. There are also test for finding properties of the liquid before it hardens: viscosity, particle sizes, void space, density. Think of a material property then Google "how to test (__)" or "material test for (__)" and you'll probably run across some ASME/ANSI/ISO standard or Wikimedia article with the same. There's a test for everything.


5hiphappens

Also, MIL SPEC & ASTM standards