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As ASTM International’s Year of the Student continues, Dean Alberson, assistant agency director, Texas Transportation Institute, and a member of ASTM International Committee F12 on Security Systems and Equipment, and Joseph Hugo, manager, ASTM, met with 30 students at the University of Southern Florida School of Civil and Environmental Engineering. The meeting took place Oct. 30 in conjunction of ASTM International’s October Committee Week in Tampa, Fla.
Alberson, a task group chair within Subcommittee F12.10 on Systems, Products and Services, spoke on the use of standards in the testing of vehicle crash barriers. Crash barriers have become increasing important in domestic security and the security of sovereign installations around the world. A new test method, ASTM F2656-07 Standard Test Method for Vehicle Crash Testing of Perimeter Barriers, provides a range of vehicle impact conditions, designations, and penetration performance levels. Alberson’s presentation also included high-speed video footage of crash tests.
Also during the program, Hugo discussed the student membership program at ASTM and the use of standards in the fields of structural, civil and environmental engineering. Hugo said that the students responded enthusiastically to the presentation.
For more information of ASTM International’s Year of the Student, visit the “ASTM Campus” section of the ASTM Web site (www.astm.org). |
