Significance and Use

This terminology ensures that terms peculiar to refractories are adequately defined so that other standards in which such terms are used can be understood and interpreted properly.

This terminology is useful to those who are not conversant with the terms related to refractories. However, it is also a ready reference for those directly associated with refractories to resolve differences and ensure commonality of usage, particularly in the preparation of ASTM standards.

Although this terminology is intended to promote uniformity in the usage of terms related to refractories, it can never be complete because new terms are constantly arising. The existence of this terminology does not preclude the use or misuse of any term in another context.

2. Referenced Documents (purchase separately) The documents listed below are referenced within the subject standard but are not provided as part of the standard.

ASTM Standards

C24 Test Method for Pyrometric Cone Equivalent (PCE) of Fireclay and High Alumina Refractory Materials

C181 Test Method for Workability Index of Fireclay and High-Alumina Refractory Plastics

C401 Classification of Alumina and Alumina-Silicate Castable Refractories

C416 Classification of Silica Refractory Brick

C456 Test Method for Hydration Resistance of Basic Bricks and Shapes

C492 Test Method for Hydration of Granular Dead-Burned Refractory Dolomite

C860 Test Method for Determining the Consistency of Refractory Castable Using the Ball-In-Hand Test

C909 Practice for Dimensions of a Modular Series of Refractory Brick and Shapes

ICS Code

ICS Number Code 01.040.81 (Glas and ceramics industries (Vocabularies)); 81.080 (Refractories)

UNSPSC Code

UNSPSC Code 31370000(Refractories)

Referencing This Standard

DOI: 10.1520/C0071-12

Citation Format

ASTM C71-12, Standard Terminology Relating to Refractories , ASTM International, West Conshohocken, PA, 2012, www.astm.org