Bulletin, Band 8

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American Society for Testing and Materials., 1908
Vols. 1-61 include reports of the 1st-64th annual meetings, committee reports and technical papers; v.16-38 include also "New and revised tentative standards [and] tentative revisions of standards" (varies slightly)
 

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Seite 162 - Test pieces should be broken as soon as they are removed from the water. Care should be observed in centering the briquettes in the testing machine, as cross-strains, produced by improper centering, tend to lower the breaking strength; the load should not be applied too suddenly, as it may produce vibration, the shock from which often breaks the briquette before the ultimate strength is reached.
Seite 145 - All tests shall be made in accordance with the methods proposed by the Committee on Uniform Tests of Cement...
Seite 162 - J cm. (0.49 in.) thick at the center, and tapering to a thin edge, should be made, upon a clean glass plate [about 10 cm. (3.94 ins.) square], from cement paste of normal consistency. 49. — Normal Test. — A pat is immersed in water maintained as near 21° C. (70 ° F.) as possible for 28 days, and observed at intervals.
Seite 160 - A moist closet or chamber is so easily devised that the use of the damp cloth should be abandoned if possible. Covering the test pieces with a damp cloth is objectionable, as commonly used, because the cloth may dry out unequally, and in consequence the test pieces are not all maintained under the same conditions.
Seite 162 - A third pat is exposed in any convenient way in an atmosphere of steam, above boiling water, in a loosely closed vessel for five hours.
Seite 158 - For the present, the Committee recommends the natural sand from Ottawa, 111., screened to pass a sieve having 20 meshes per linear inch and retained on a sieve having 30 meshes per linear inch; the wires to have diameters of 0.0165 and 0.0112 in., respectively, ie, half the width of the opening in each case.
Seite 162 - Methods. — Tests for constancy of volume are divided into two classes: (1) normal tests, or those made in either air or water maintained at about 21° C.
Seite 162 - Fig. 5, .is recommended. This clip is to be used" without cushioning at the points of contact with the, test specimen. The bearing at each point of contact should be J-inch wide, and the distance between the center of contact on the same clip should be 1 } inches.
Seite 153 - ... 2. The sample shall be a fair average of the contents of the package; it is recommended that, where conditions permit, one barrel in every ten be sampled. 3. All samples should be passed through a sieve having twenty meshes per linear inch, in order to break up lumps and remove foreign material; this is also a very effective method for mixing them together in order to obtain an average. For determining the characteristics of a shipment of cement, the individual samples may be mixed and the average...
Seite 157 - The setting is said to have commenced when the needle ceases to pass a point 5 mm. (0.20 in.) above the upper surface of the glass plate, and is said to have terminated the moment the needle does not sink visibly into the mass.

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