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ASME Codes and Standards – Measurement Collection

This ASME Collection includes 43 documents covering coordinate measuring machines, flow measurement, temperature measurement, dimensional metrology and pressure measurement.

ASME Measurement Standards - Collection Description

ASME Standards Collection - A Complete List

B40.100
Pressure Gauges and Gauge Attachments - provides terminology, definitions, testing and safety considerations of Pressure Indicating Dial Type Gauges, Diaphragm Seals, Snubbers, Pressure Limiter Valves and Pressure Digital Indicating Gauges.
B40.200 Thermometers, Direct Reading and Remote Reading - provides definitions, testing, construction and safety issues of Bimetallic Actuated Thermometers; Filled System Thermometers; Liquid in Glass Thermometers; and Thermowells for Thermometers and Electrical Temperature Sensors.
B89.1.2M Calibration of Gage Blocks by Contact Comparison Methods (Through 20 in. and 500 mm) - This Standard offers ways of measuring length and parallelism of gage blocks requiring recalibration or certification.  It provides methods for determining flatness, surface texture, and wringing quality.
B89.1.5 Measurement of Plain External Diameters for Use as Master Discs or Cylindrical Plug Gages - This Standard is for cylindrical plug gages and master discs used to set and calibrate measuring instruments and check internal diameters, including tolerances and measuring methods
B89.1.6 Measurement of Plain Internal Diameters for use as Master Rings or Ring Gages - This Standard is for cylindrical ring gages used to set and calibrate measuring instruments and check external diameters, including tolerances and measuring methods.
B89.1.9 Gage Blocks - specifies the length, flatness, variation in length, surface finish, hardness, temporal stability, cross-section dimensions, chamfer and side-face squareness for gage blocks.
B89.1.10M Dial Indicators (for Linear Measurements) - This Standard has information on dial indicator design styles, size groupings, maximum permissible errors (indication and hysteresis), and appendices on testing, uncertainty and electronic indicators.
B89.1.13 Micrometers - provides specifications, measurement methods, and means of determining measurement uncertainty for outside, inside, and depth micrometers, including those with digital readout.
B89.1.17 Measurement of Thread Measuring Wires - establishes uniform practices for the measurement of thread measuring wires.  Wires include inch series 60-deg, 29-deg Acme, 7/45 Buttress, and metric 60-deg threads.
B89.3.1 Measurement of Out-of-Roundness - deals with precision spindle instruments for out-of-roundness measurement and polar chart presentation, but does not exclude other methods providing valid radial deviation data.
B89.3.4M Axes of Rotation - Methods for Specifying and Testing - This Standard defines synchronous and asynchronous error motion, sensitive direction, thermal drift, compliance, axis shift, and structural loop as applied to machine tool spindles and roundness testers.
B89.4.1 Methods for Performance Evaluation of Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMM) - describes methods to specify and test the measurement performance of Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMMs); including methods to account for a noncompliance thermal environment.
B89.4.10 Methods for Performance Evaluation of Coordinate Measuring Systems Software - This Standard offers guidelines for evaluating the quality of solutions generated by Coordinate Measurement System (CMS) software, and to define minimal documentation requirements for software providers.
B89.4.19 Performance Evaluation of Laser-Based Spherical Coordinate Measurement Systems - describes methods to specify and test the measurement performance of Laser Trackers, including both HeNe interferometers and Absolute Distance Measuring (ADM) systems.
B89.4.22 Methods for Performance Evaluation of Articulated Arm Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMM) - details the methods for performance evaluation of Articulated Arm CMMs. Standard tests with alternate methods of data analysis are discussed, including recommendations on artifacts.
B89.6.2 Temperature and Humidity Environment for Dimensional Measurement - This Standard discusses issues when taking measurements not at the standard temperature. Also discussed is the calculation of thermal time constants, or “soak-out time” and the “thermal error index”.
B89.7.2 Dimensional Measurement Planning - specifies requirements for preparation and approval of dimensional measurement plans, and for the use of approved plans in making dimensional measurements.
B89.7.3.1 Guidelines for Decision Rules:  Considering Measurement Uncertainty in Determining Conformance to Specifications - addresses the role of measurement uncertainty when accepting or rejecting a product based on a measurement result and a product specification; terminology and rules are presented.
B89.7.3.2 Guidelines for the Evaluation of Dimensional Measurement Uncertainty - Technical Report that provides a simplified approach for evaluation of dimensional measurement uncertainty; the method is consistent with "The Guide to Expression of Uncertainty in Measurement (GUM)."
B89.7.3.3 Guidelines for Assessing the Reliability of Dimensional Measurement Uncertainty Statements - examines how to assess the reliability of dimensional measurement uncertainty statements, and how resolve technical disagreements involving their evaluation.
B89.7.4.1 Measurement Uncertainty and Conformance Testing:  Risk Analysis - This Technical Report provides guidelines for setting acceptance limits in conformance tests wherein uncertain numerical test results are compared with specified requirements.
B89.7.5 Metrological Traceability of Dimensional Measurements to the SI Unit of Length - This Technical Report offers guidelines for demonstrating traceability of dimensional measurements.  Issues include measurement uncertainty, uncertainty budget and documentation traceability requirements.
B89 TECH PAPER Space Plate Test Recommendations for Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMM’s) - This Technical Paper details the construction of space plates and discusses methods of data analysis.  A space plate is an economical and practical technique for estimating the uncertainties of CMM’s.
B89 TECH RPT Parametric Calibration of Coordinate Measuring Machines (CMM’s) - Technical Report that deals with parametric (kinematic) errors including linear axial, straightness, rotational yaw, pitch, roll, squarenesses and rigid body errors
MFC-1M Glossary of Terms Used in the Measurement of Fluid Flow in Pipes - consists of a collection of definitions of those terms that pertain to the measurement of fluid flow in pipes. Only those terms of general usage have been included.
MFC-2M Measurement Uncertainty for Fluid Flow in Closed Conduits - presents a working outline detailing and illustrating the techniques for estimating measurement uncertainty for fluid flow in closed conduits.
MFC-3M Measurement of Fluid Flow in Pipes Using Orifice, Nozzle and Venturi - specifies the geometry and method of use (installation and operating conditions) for pressure differential devices (including, but not limited to, orifice plates, flow nozzles, and venturi tubes) when installed in a closed conduit running full and used to determine the flow-rate of the fluid flowing in the conduit.
MFC-4M Measurement of Gas Flow by Turbine Meters - This Standard applies to axial full-flow turbine meters with mechanical and/or electrical outputs whose rotating member is driven by a compressible fluid and the measurement of gas by a turbine meter.
MFC-5M Measurement of Liquid Flow in Closed Conduits Using Transit-Time Ultrasonic Flowmeters - applies only to ultrasonic flowmeters that base their operation on the measurement of transit times of acoustic signals.
MFC-6M Measurement of Fluid Flow in Pipes Using Vortex Flowmeters - describes vortex shedding flowmeters, and how the frequency of the vortex pairs is a measure of the fluid velocity.
MFC-7M Measurement of Gas Flow by Means of Critical Flow Venturi Nozzles - applies to the steady flow of single-phase gases and deals with devices for which direct calibration experiments have been made.
MFC-8M Fluid Flow in Closed Conduits:  Connections for Pressure Signal Transmissions Between Primary and Secondary Devices - describes the practices and means that allow the pressures at a head type primary device to be conveyed to the secondary device in a flow measurement system.
MFC-9M Measurement of Liquid Flow in Closed Conduits by Weighing Methods - specifies a method of liquid flow rate measurement in closed conduits by measuring the mass of liquid delivered into a weighing tank in a known time interval.
MFC-10M Method for Establishing Installation Effects on Flowmeters - establishes methods for determining the influence of installation conditions or flow patterns on the performance of flowmeters in closed conduits (i.e., pipe, ducts, etc.).
MFC-11 Measurement of Fluid Flow by Means of Coriolis Mass Flowmeters - This Standard gives guidelines for the selection, installation, calibration, and operation of Coriolis meters for the determination of mass flow, density, volume flow, and other parameters fluids.
MFC-12M Measurement of Fluid Flow in Closed Conduits Using Multiport Averaging Pitot Primary Elements - provides information on the use of multiport averaging Pitot head-type devices used to measure liquids and gases.
MFC-13M Measurement of Fluid Flow in Closed Conduits:  Tracer Methods - defines the use of tracer (dilution) methods in the measurement of single-phase fluid (gas or liquid) flows in closed conduits.
MFC-14M Measurement of Fluid Flow Using Small Bore Precision Orifice Meters - specifies the geometric and method of use for orifice meters of 6 mm to 40 mm (1/4 in. to 1 ½ in.) line size when they are inserted in a conduit running full.
MFC-16 

Measurement of Liquid Flow in Closed Conduits With Electromagnetic Flowmeters - applies to AC and pulsed-DC type industrial electromagnetic flowmeters with either wetted or non-wetted electrodes.

MFC-18M

Measurement of Fluid Flow Using Variable Area Meters - describes the common variable area flowmeter. This Standard does not attempt to standardize dimensions because the commercial products differ too widely.

PTC 19.2

Pressure Measurement - This document presents a summary discussion of pressure measurement, as related to Performance Test Code work, with particular emphasis on basic sources of error and the means for coping with them.

PTC 19.3

Temperature Measurement - This document presents a summary discussion of temperature measurement, as related to Performance Test Code work, with particular emphasis on basic sources of error and the means for coping with them.

PTC 19.5

Flow Measurement - This document defines and describes the proper measurement of any flow required or recommended by any of the Performance Test Codes.



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