ASTM Volume 15.08 PDF

Published annually, this is the 2023 edition. The next edition is expected November 2024.

This volume contains 174 standards.

Volume 15.08 covers:

• Security Systems and Equipment: Standards focus on protective design of buildings, including blast and forced entry resistant glazing, blast resistant doors, vehicle crash testing of perimeter barriers, and boat barrier perimeters. Test methods and practices also cover controlled access security screening equipment, as well as locking devices.
• Detention and Correctional Facilities: Covers security control systems and detention hardware, including hinges and locks, furnishings, and physical barriers, including swinging door assemblies and chain link barrier systems.
• Homeland Security Applications: Standards address CBRNE sensors and detectors, emergency preparedness, training procedures, decontamination, personal protective equipment, building and infrastructure protection, security controls, operational equipment, and terminology.
• Robotics, Automation, and Autonomous Systems: Standards for industrial/commercial robotics, automation, and autonomous systems (i.e., terminology, practices, classifications, guides, test methods, and specifications). These standards are applicable to, but not limited to, automatic/automated/autonomous vehicles, robotic arms/manipulators, and the sensors used in these systems; for smart infrastructures, advanced manufacturing, logistics and other automation.
• Exoskeletons and Exosuits: Addresses safety, quality, performance, ergonomics and terminology for systems and components during the full life cycle of the product – from before usage, to maintenance, to disposal – including security and information technology considerations. The activities cover industrial, emergency response, medical, military and consumer applications covering passive and active systems, enhancing and decreasing effects systems, as well as systems with physical and cognitive integration.