I think Stan it’s known as the American Society of Testing and Materials, 
unless they’ve changed their name at some point.

John F-L



From: Stanislav Jakuba 
Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 12:44 AM
To: U.S. Metric Association 
Cc: Enright, Cicely 
Subject: [USMA:53804] ASTM

The American Society for Testing of Materials, officially known as ASTM 
International, and best known as simply ASTM, is the one of the largest 
standards writing organization in the world. In the last issue of its 
STANDARDIZATION NEWS, a monthly magazine, there is an article Of SI and 
Standards that summarizes the results of the ASTM longstanding policy that only 
SI be used in all new standards, and old ones be modified at updates. The link 
to the article: 
 
http://www.astm.org/standardization-news/en-route/of-si-and-standards-mj14.html.



In particular, the article states that "of the standards that do use 
measurement units, 51 % (about 6000 documents) use SI only, 33 % use non-SI 
units, 16 % use both SI and other, and 17 % use no units (of any kind).


The rules for the use of units at ASTM are written in the famous Bluebook, 
www.astm.org/bluebook
Stan Jakuba
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