ASTM Specifications for Cold Formed Steel Structural Members: ASTM Standards Referenced in CSA'...
Preface This publication was assembled for the Canadian Standards Association and contains those ASTM standards referenced in S136-94, Cold Formed Steel Structural Members. It is intended to be used as a reference tool in conjunction with CSA Standard S136-94.
The purpose of compiling the ASTM standards is to aid users of the CSA standard and not to replace S136-94, which remains the only…
Competing Leaner, Keener and Greener: A Small Business Guide to ISO 14000
This work book is intended to be a business tool for small and medium sized enterprises. It is designed to introduce the user to an environmental management system (EMS) that is aligned with the five key principles and elements of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) guidance standard, ISO 14004. It is interactive and patterned such that an EMS based on international standards…
Some Assembly Required - A CSA Guide to Writing Instruction Manuals
Introduction
Remember the last time you spent three hours of frustration trying to assemble your child's bicycle? You know, the one that the kid next door finally had to put together for you! Or how about the digital clock that constantly flashes 12:00 because you lost the instructions and can't figure out the senseless sequence of buttons that must be pushed to set the time? You…
Performance Packagings for Transportation of Dangerous Goods
1. SCOPe
1.1 This standard contains requirements for packagings based on United
Nations Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods. It
specifies performance requirements of basic packaging types for
packagings intended for handling or transporting dangerous goods.
1.2 The testing and evaluation of a product against this standard may…
Specifications for Concrete and Concrete Structures Design
Contains ASTM Standards referenced in CSA's A23.1/A23.2-94, Concrete Materials and Methods of Concrete Construction; A23.3-94, Design of Concrete Structures; A23.4-94, Precast Concrete - Materials and Construction; S413-94, Parking Structures. This publication is intended to be used as a reference tool in conjunction with these standards.
Industrial Robots and Robot Systems - General Safety Requirements
1. Scope
1.1
This Standard applies to safety considerations in the design, construction,
installation, testing and startup, operation, maintenance, and training
requirements for industrial robots and robot systems.
1.2
This Standard is intended to provide guidelines for industrial robot
manufacture, robot system installation, and methods of safeguarding to enhance
the safety of…
Manual for the Selection, Installation, Maintenance, and Field Testing of
Backflow Prevention Device...
1. Scope
1.1
This Standard covers the selection, installation, maintenance, and field
testing of backflow prevention devices. Additional information on how backflow
due to back siphonage and back pressure occurs and on the selection and
application of specific devices is included in Appendices A, B, and C.
1.2
This Standard does not include requirements for materials, construction, and…
Masonry Design for Buildings (Limit States Design)
1. Scope
1.1
This Standard provides requirements for the engineered design of unreinforced,
reinforced, and prefabricated masonry structures in accordance with the limit
states design method of the National Building Code of Canada. In addition,
this Standard provides requirements for the empirical design of unreinforced
masonry.
Note: The National Building Code of Canada requires that…
1. Scope
1.1 General
This Standard provides criteria for the structural design and appraisal of
structures or structural elements made from wood or wood products including
graded lumber, glued-laminated timber, unsanded plywood, design rated OSB,
composite building components, shearwalls and diaphragms, piling, pole type
construction, structural fastenings, prefabricated wood I-joists,…
Antennas, Towers, and Antenna-Supporting Structures
1. Scope
1.1
This Standard applies to the structural design, fabrication, and erection of
new, and modification of existing
(a) structural antennas;
(b) antenna towers;
(c) antenna-supporting structures; and
(d) structural components such as guys and foundations that form an integral
part of the structure.
1.2
This Standard is not intended to apply to
(a) attachment antennas and…