Primer on Engineering Standards

Index

1. access to reference standards
2. acronyms
3. alternate standard
4. American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
5. American Petroleum Institute (API)
6. American Society for Testing and materials (ASTM)
7. American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)
8. American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME)
   1. boiler and pressure vessel code
9. American standards, some
10. appeals process
11. Army Corp of Engineers
12. aspects of governmental involvement with standards
13. Babylonia, kingdom of
14. balance
15. bibliography
16. boiler explosions
17. case studies
18. code cases
19. codes
    1. international
    2. national
20. component standards
21. conformity assessment
    1. organizations
22. consensus
23. consequences of not using a standard
24. consistency
25. construction details, guidance
26. corporate proprietary standards
27. corporate public standards
28. deciding not to use a standard
29. degradation, product
30. design rules, safe
31. due process
32. economic extent of standards
33. enforcement
34. Federal Government
35. function
36. general policies
37. geographical extent of standards
38. getting involved in standards development
39. governmental
    1. agencies
    2. and Jurisdictional Limited Consensus Standards
    3. standards
    4. use
40. government-unique standard
41. history
42. hybrid standards
43. incorporation by reference
44. industrial organizations that publish limited consensus standards
45. inspection
    1. agencies
    2. jurisdictions
    3. methodologies for
46. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
47. insurance agencies
48. international standards
49. interpretation
    1. informal
    2. letters of
    3. OSHA
    4. voluntary consensus standards
50. involvement in standards
51. jurisdictional ...