Quality Standard

ISO/IEC 17025
General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories

Corrosion Testing
ASTM A262-02a
Standard Practices for Detecting Susceptibility to Intergranular Attack in Austenitic Stainless Steels
ASTM G48-03
Standard Test Methods for Pitting and Crevice Corrosion Resistance of Stainless Steels and Related Alloys by Use of Ferric
Chloride Solution
NACE TM0284-2003
Standard Test Method - Evaluation of Pipeline and Pressure Vessel Steels for Resistance to Hydrogen-Induced Cracking
NACE TM0177-96
Laboratory Testing of Metals for Resistance to Sulfide Stress Cracking in Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S) Environments
ASTM B117-03
Standard Practice for Operating Salt Spray (Fog) Apparatus
ASTM G36-94(2000)
Standard Practice for Evaluating Stress-Corrosion-Cracking Resistance of Metals and Alloys in a Boiling Magnesium
Chloride Solution
ASTM G35-98(2004)
Standard Practice for Determining the Susceptibility of Stainless Steels and Related Nickel-Chromium-Iron Alloys to Stress-
Corrosion Cracking in Polythionic Acids
ASTM A761/A761M-04
Standard Specification for Corrugated Steel Structural Plate, Zinc-Coated, for Field-Bolted Pipe, Pipe-Arches, and Arches

Mechanical Testing
ASTM A370-03a
Standard Test Methods and Definitions for Mechanical Testing of Steel Products
ASTM E407-99
Standard Practice for Microetching Metals and Alloys
ASTM A530/A530M-04a
Standard Specification for General Requirements for Specialized Carbon and Alloy Steel Pipe
ASTM E340-00e1
Standard Test Method for Macroetching Metals and Alloys
ASTM E92-82(2003)e2
Standard Test Method for Vickers Hardness of Metallic Materials

Chemical Analysis
ASTM E1086-94(2005)
Standard Test Method for Optical Emission Vacuum Spectrometric Analysis of Stainless Steel by the Point-to-Plane
Excitation Technique
ASTM E1045-00
Standard Specification for Pipet, Sahli Hemoglobin
ASTM E75-76(2004)
Standard Test Methods for Chemical Analysis of Copper-Nickel and Copper-Nickel-Zinc Alloys

Non Destructive Testing

ANSI/API 1104
Welding of Pipelines and Related Facilities including procedures for radiographic, magnetic particle, liquid penetrant, and
ultrasonic testing as well as the acceptance standards to be applied to production welds tested to destruction or inspected
by radiographic, magnetic particle, liquid penetrant, ultrasonic, and visual testing methods.Materials