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INTRODUCTION
There are three major purposes for these guidelines on incoming
inspection of raw material. They are:
• To provide background information on uses of specific raw
materials, citing applicable reference specifications, where they
exist.
• To provide a series of tests to be used for incoming
inspection of these raw materials with the significance of each of
the itemized tests given summary explanation.
• To provide, where applicable, a proposed method for
functionally testing the raw material in question.
The number and frequency of tests performed by the user, will be
at the user's discretion. In this fashion, the user can provide
himself with the necessary level of confidence he desires on
incoming raw materials. Additionally, and because of this
arrangement, testing can be performed at a level commensurate with
the user's operations and capabilities.
Although many tests are referenced and described in these
guidelines, it is not intended that these tests should be performed
in total, either by the user or the vendor of the material.
Discrete selection of testing requirements is as important a
parameter as the tests themselves.
Materials whose properties have been tailored to provide certain
characteristics, or where certain characteristics are important to
the user, should not be tested for other parameters that do not
give additional inputs into the material's properties an.d that may
be misleading; this applies to users and vendors alike, as these
guidelines are not intended to be used as a purchasing
document.
Section 1 of these guidelines provides general information that
will be helpful in using the other sections, as well as
establishing those rules that apply to the b.road spectrum of
incoming inspection procedures.