New video on Charpy impact testing. (General Developments).To help customers of the Charpy impact-testing program, NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. is now distributing a video, "How Tough is Steel." The 20 mm video begins with a background of the Charpy test, then covers the details of the verification program run by NIST, and finally summarizes the procedures that will improve the performance of these machines. The video was designed to supplement the information included in NIST Special Publication 960-4, Standard Practice Guide on Installing, Maintaining, and Verifying Your Charpy Impact Machine. The video has been produced in VHS (Video Home System) A half-inch, analog videocassette recorder (VCR) format introduced by JVC in 1976 to compete with Sony's Betamax, introduced a year earlier. and CDROM See CD-ROM. (MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). 1) formats. It is available from the NIST Charpy program coordinator by sending an e-mail to vigliotti@boulder.nist.gov. CONTACT: Tom Siewert, (303) 497-3523; siewert@boulder.nist.gov. |
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