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News from BSI - August 2008

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5. ISO Standards (no special prices apply to this section)

BSI have recently introduced a service which provides copies of withdrawn standards. Frequently, standards are replaced or revised several times during their lifetimes. In some cases, the standard has proved unworkable in use; in others, the standard has failed to meet consumer aspirations. In all cases, it is necessary to have an audit trail, so that the development of a standard can be followed, and poor technology avoided. Additionally, in some legal cases, it has proved necessary to know, some years after an event, what the state of knowledge was at the time that engineering decisions were taken. Further details on this service at www.bsigroup.com/withdrawn.

Rapid changes to the educational landscape have been highlighted by the withdrawal of three Drafts for Development covering the UK's life long learning profile (UKLeaP). Dating from as long ago as 2006, they are withdrawn because they 'no longer meet the requirements of UK academia'.

1. New Standards

BE EN ISO 9241

Ergonomics of the human-system interaction. Guidance on World Wide Web user interfaces. £160.00

BS EN 12697-12

Bituminous mixtures. Test methods for hot mix asphalt. Determination of water sensitivity of bituminous specimens. £80.00

BS EN ISO 17132

Paints and varnishes. T-bend test. £80.00

BS EN ISO 11303

Corrosion of metal and alloys. Guidelines for the selection of -protection methods against atmospheric corrosion.

BS EN ISO 16151

Corrosion of metal and alloys. Evaluation of stress cracking by the drop evaporation test.

BS EN ISO 16701

Corrosion of metal and alloys. Corrosion in artificial atmospheres. Accelerated corrosion test involving exposure under controlled conditions of humidity cycling and intermittent spraying of a salt solution.

BS EN ISO 17475

Corrosion of metal and alloys. Electrochemical test methods. Guidelines for conducting potentiostatic and potentiodynamic polarisation measurements.

BS EN ISO 17864

Corrosion of metal and alloys. Determination of the critical pitting temperature under potentiostatic control.

BS ISO 12637-4

Graphic technology. Vocabulary. Post-press terms. £64.00

BS ISO 15686

Buildings and constructed assets. Service life planning. Life cycle costing. £160.00

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2. New work started

BS EN 927-1

Paints and varnishes. Coating systems and coating materials for exterior wood. Classification and selection. Will supersede the 1997 edition.

BS EN 927-7

Paints and varnishes. Coating systems and coating materials for exterior wood. Assessment of knot staining resistance.

BS EN 1423

Road marking materials. Drop on materials. Glass beads, antiskid aggregates and mixtures of the two. Will supersede the 1998 edition

BS EN 1824

Road marking materials. Road trials. Will supersede the 1998 edition

BS EN 1871

Road marking materials. Physical properties. Will supersede the 2000 edition

BS EN ISO 8503-1

Preparation of steel substrates before application of paints and related products. Surface roughness characteristics of blast-cleaned steel substrates. Specifications and definitions for ISO surface comparators for the assessment of abrasive blast-cleaned surfaces. Will supersede the 1995 edition

BS EN ISO 8503-2

Preparation of steel substrates before application of paints and related products. Surface roughness characteristics of blast-cleaned steel substrates. Method for the grading of surface profile of abrasive blast-cleaned steel. Comparator procedure.

BS EN ISO 8503-3

Preparation of steel substrates before application of paints and related products. Surface roughness characteristics of blast-cleaned steel substrates. Method for the calibration of ISO surface profile comparators and for the determination of surface profile. Focusing microscope procedure. Will supersede the 1995 edition

BS EN ISO 8503-4

Preparation of steel substrates before application of paints and related products. Surface roughness characteristics of blast-cleaned steel substrates. Method for the calibration of ISO surface profile comparators and for the determination of surface profile. Stylus instrument procedure. Will supersede the 1995 edition

BS EN WI 00193223

Adhesives. Emulsion polymerised isocyanate (EPI) for load bearing timber structures. Classification and performance requirements.

BS EN 12696

Cathodic protection of steel in concrete. Will supersede the 2000 edition

BS EN 12802

Road marking materials. Laboratory methods and identification. Will supersede the 2000 edition

BS EN 13212

Road marking materials. Requirements for factory production control. Will supersede the 2001 edition.

BS EN 13303

Bitumen and bituminous binders. Determination of loss of mass after heating of industrial bitumens. Will supersede the 2003 edition

BS EN 13304

Bitumen and bituminous binders. Framework for the specification of oxidised bitumen. Will supersede the 2003 edition

BS EN 13305

Bitumen and bituminous binders. Framework for the specification of hard industrial bitumens. Will supersede the 2003 edition

DD CEN/TS 14038-2

Electrochemical re-alkalisation and chloride extraction treatments for reinforced concrete. Chloride extraction

BS EN ISO 15303

Animal and vegetable fats and oils. Detection and identification of a volatile organic contaminant by GC/MS. Will supersede the 2001 edition

DD/ISO/TS 22028-4

Photography and graphic technology. Extended colour encodings for digital image storage, manipulation and interchange. European Colour Initiative RGB colour image encoding (eciRGB(2008))

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3. Drafts for public comment

08/19974897

Statistical interpretation of data. Detection and treatment of outliers. BS ISO 16269-4. Comments on this Draft are required by 15th.September to the Secretary of IST/33 at BSI

08/30183974

Risk management. Risk assessment techniques. BS EN 31010. Commen

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4. CEN Reports

CEN/TR 10345

Guidelines for statistical data treatment on interlaboratory tests for validation of analytical methods

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5. ISO Standards (no special prices apply to this section)

ISO 734-2

Oilseed meals. Determination of oil content. Rapid extraction method. £40.00

ISO 8534

Animal and vegetable fats and oils. Determination of water content by Karl Fischer method (pyridine-free). £47.00

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Peter Munn - August 2008