Roofing research and standards development: Fourth volume. ASTM special technical publication 1349
- eds.
As the roofing industry has stabilized, a broad variety of roof systems have found general acceptance by the building owners, architects, engineers, contractors, and others who select and install roofs. These roof systems include those based on conventional built-up membranes using glass and synthetic reinforcements, synthetic polymeric membranes using elastomers and thermoplastics, polymer-modified membranes, and sprayed polyurethane foam. ASTM Committee D8 on Roofing, Waterproofing, and Bituminous Materials has contributed significantly in many important ways to the roofing community's stabilization including issuing standard specifications to assist consumers in the selection and use of these systems. This is not surprising, as it has always been among the purpose of D8 to provide standards to assist in the selection and use of low-sloped and steep roofing. The Committee's scope includes development of standards associated with application, inspection, maintenance, and analyses. Some of the issues facing the roofing community today--for example, enhanced system durability, better methods of material characterization, environmental impact, recycling of materials and systems, industry conversation to the S.I. system metric--readily fall within D8's scope. The availability of sound standard can contribute to the resolution of many of these issues.
- OSTI ID:
- 20000858
- Report Number(s):
- CONF-981237-; ISBN 0-8031-2494-5; ISSN 1050-8104
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Roofing Research and Standards Development, Nashville, TN (US), 12/06/1998; Other Information: PBD: 1999
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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