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New ASTM E165/E165M 2012 Edition is available on Liquid Penetrant Testing

For those of you who do liquid penetrant testing, you’ll want to know that there’s a new 2012 Edition of the ASTM E165/E165M standard, “Standard Practice for Liquid Penetrant Examination for General Industry.”  The new 18-page standard is available from Document Center Inc. in paper and pdf format, and a redline edition can also be purchased which includes the markup so you can identify all the new changes.

ASTM E165/E165M-12 covers procedures for penetrant examination of materials. Penetrant testing is a nondestructive testing method for detecting discontinuities that are open to the surface such as cracks, seams, laps, cold shuts, shrinkage, laminations, through leaks, or lack of fusion and is applicable to in-process, final, and maintenance testing.

It can be effectively used in the examination of nonporous, metallic materials, ferrous and nonferrous metals, and of nonmetallic materials such as nonporous glazed or fully densified ceramics, as well as certain nonporous plastics, and glass.

The standard was previously numbered ASTM E165.  The new designation (E165/E165M) means that that whereas the values used to be stated in inch-pound units and SI units were provided for information only, now values stated in either SI units or inch pound units are to be regarded separately as standard.

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New ASTM E1417 2011 Edition on Standard Practice for Liquid Penetrant Testing

There’s a new edition of the popular Standard Practice for Liquid Penetrant Testing, ASTM E1417-11 2011 Edition.  The 11 page revision replaces the ASTM E1417-05(e1) Edition from 2005 and the MIL-STD-6866.  The document establishes the minimum requirements for conducting liquid penetrant examination of nonporous metal, and nonmetal components.

The document has been redesignated to ASTM E1417/E1417M.  This redesignation means that the document contains measurements in both metric and feet and inches.

This practice is written so it can be specified on the engineering drawing, specification, or contract. It is not a detailed how-to procedure to be used by the inspector and, therefore, must be supplemented by a detailed procedure that conforms to the requirements of this practice. Specification ASTM E165 contains information to help develop detailed requirements.

The penetrant examination processes described in this practice are applicable to in-process, final, and maintenance (in-service) examinations. These processes are applicable for the detection of discontinuities, such as lack of fusion, corrosion, cracks, laps, cold shuts, and porosity, that are open or connected to the surface of the component under examination.

Caution must be exercised in the usage of elevated temperature with components manufactured from thermoplastic materials. Also, some cleaners, penetrants, and developers can have a deleterious effect on nonmetallic materials such as plastics. Prior to examination, tests should be conducted to ensure that none of the cleaning or examination materials are harmful to the components to be examined.

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