Codes & Standards
ASTM Materials Standards
The specifications and test methods for qualifying materials.
- Governs
- Material spec & testing
ASTM standards specify material compositions and the test methods used to qualify them. Every structural and plasma-facing material in a fusion plant is characterised against such specifications as part of materials qualification.
Kronos frames material qualification against these standards as scheduled work.
Common questions
Why do ASTM materials standards matter?
They define how the steels, copper alloys and other materials are specified, tested and certified, so that what is built matches what was analysed. Material qualification rests on them.
Do fusion materials need new standards?
Low-activation and irradiated-material behaviour extend existing standards, but the baseline specification and testing framework is established ASTM practice.