资讯

美国材料与试验协会(ASTM)

转载 2016-01-14 11:00 ASTM 来源:美国材料与试验协会
美国材料与试验协会(ASTM)

  美国材料与试验协会(American Society for Testing and Materials,ASTM)前身是国际材料试验协会(International Association for Testing Materials, IATM)。19世纪80年代,为解决采购商与供货商在购销工业材料过程中产生的意见和分歧,有人提出建立技术委员会制度,由技术委员会组织各方面的代表参加技术座谈会,讨论解决有关材料规范、试验程序等方面的争议问题。IATM首次会议于1882年在欧洲召开,会上组成了工作委员会。
  由来发展
  当时,主要是研究解决钢铁和其它材料的试验方法问题。同时,国际材料试验协会还鼓励各国组织分会。随后,在1898年6月16日,有70名IATM会员聚集在美国费城,开会成立国际材料试验协会美国分会。1902年在国际材料试验协会分会第五届年会上,宣告美国分会正式独立,取名为美国材料试验学会(American Society for Testing Materials)。随着其业务范围的不断扩大和发展,学会的工作中心不仅仅是研究和制定材料规范和试验方法标准,还包括各种材料、产品、系统、服务项目的特点和性能标准,以及试验方法、程序等标准。1961年该组织又将其名称改为延用至今的美国材料与试验协会(American Society for Testing and Materials, ASTM)。
  ASTM是美国最老、最大的非盈利性的标准学术团体之一。经过一个世纪的发展,ASTM现有33669个(个人和团体)会员,其中有22396个主要委员会会员在其各个委员会中担任技术专家工作。ASTM的技术委员会下共设有2004个技术分委员会。有105817个单位参加了ASTM标准的制定工作,主要任务是制定材料、产品、系统、和服务等领域的特性和性能标准,试验方法和程序标准,促进有关知识的发展和推广。
  ASTM的宗旨就是促进公共健康与安全,提高生活质量; 提供值得信赖的原料、产品、体系和服务; 推动国家、地区、乃至国际经济。
  战略目标
  1、提供最适宜的环境与支持给技术学会,使其不断发展相关标准,并进一步扩大有关信息。
  2、确保ASTM产品及服务是最及时和准确的。
  3、增加ASTM的透明度,扩大ASTM标准及服务在全球市场的价值。
  4、加强ASTM的产品及服务不仅在国家,还要在国际上更广泛的被接受与使用。
  5、使ASTM的资源、方法、技术和设备更加适合市场的变化,符合市场需求。
  6、通过主要股东的公平参与以保证ASTM代表多数人的声音。
  7、保持ASTM的基本稳定,确保其完全履行社会责任与义务。

Over 12,000 ASTM standards operate globally. Defined and set by us, they improve the lives of millions every day.

Combined with our innovative business services, ASTM standards enhance performance and help everyone have confidence in the things they buy and use – from the toy in a child’s hand to the aircraft overhead.

Working across borders, disciplines and industries we harness the expertise of over 30,000 members to create consensus and improve performance in manufacturing and materials, products and processes, systems and services.

Understanding commercial needs and consumer priorities, we touch every part of everyday life: helping our world work better.
ASTM International is a globally recognized leader in the development and delivery of voluntary consensus standards. Today, over 12,000 ASTM standards are used around the world to improve product quality, enhance health and safety, strengthen market access and trade, and build consumer confidence.

Our leadership in international standards development is driven by the contributions of our members: more than 30,000 of the world’s top technical experts and business professionals representing 140 countries. Working in an open and transparent process and using ASTM’s advanced IT infrastructure, our members create the test methods, specifications, classifications, guides and practices that support industries and governments worldwide.

We welcome and encourage participation from around the world. Our open consensus process, using advanced Internet-based standards development tools, ensures worldwide access for all interested individuals.

ASTM International standards are the tools of customer satisfaction and competiveness for companies across a wide range of markets. Through more than 140 technical standards-writing committees, we serve a broad range of industries: metals, construction, petroleum, consumer products and many more. When new industries — like nanotechnology, additive manufacturing and industrial biotechnology — look to advance the growth of cutting-edge technologies through standardization, many of them come to ASTM International.

ASTM standards are passports to a successful global trading strategy. Our high quality, market-relevant standards, developed in accordance with the guiding principles of the World Trade Organization, fuel trade by opening new markets and creating new trading partners for enterprises everywhere. For businesses ranging from Fortune 500 leaders to emerging startups, our standards help level the playing field to foster competition in the global economy.

Beyond standards development, ASTM offers technical training programs, as well as proficiency testing, and certification and declaration. All of our programs complement our standards development activities and provide enterprise solutions for companies, government agencies, researchers and laboratories worldwide.

The American Society for Testing and Materials was formed in 1898, founded by Charles B. Dudley, Ph.D., a chemist with the Pennsylvania Railroad. In 2001, we changed our name to ASTM International. Learn more about our history.

ASTM’s world headquarters are located in West Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, with offices in Belgium, Canada, China, Peru and Washington, D.C.

0 0

网友评论

取消