Rail Sections as Engineering Structures-P. H. Dudley... Influence of Methods of Piling Staybolt Iron on Vibratory Tests- Hard Cast Iron: The Theory of One of its Causes-Henry Souther. Plan and Scope of the Proposed Investigation of Structural Materials Under the Auspices of the U. S. Geological Survey-J. A. Holmes The Rattler Test for Paving Brick as a Safe Method of Disclosing the Limit of Permissible Absorption-Edward Orton, Jr.. . . . 287 Normal Consistency Tests of Neat Cement-R. S. Greenman...... Economical Mold for Forming Compressive Test Pieces for Concrete The Collective Portland Cement Exhibit and Model Testing Labor- atory of the Association of American Portland Cement Manu- facturers and the Results of Tests at the Louisiana Purchase Proper Methods in Conducting Painting Tests-G. W. Thompson. The Practicability of Establishing Standard Specifications for Pre- servative Coatings for Steel--Topical Discussion . . . . . Protection of Iron and Steel Structures by Means of Paper and CHARTER, BY-LAWS, LIST OF MEMBERS, COMMITTEES, ETC Charter of the American Society for Testing Materials... (a) The International Association for Testing Materials... .. . (b) The Organization of the American Members.... Officers, Members of the Executive Committee, and Standing Com- VI-VII. Tables of Results of Tests on Sands, Cement, Mortar and PLATES. I-II. Bending Tests on Staybolts-Wille... III-IV. Structure and Fracture of Staybolt Iron-Wille. V. General Drawings of Beam-testing Machine for Uniform 172 174 276 VIII. Diagrams Showing Granulometric Analysis of Various 398 X. List of Paints Tested from 1893 to 1904-Barker. IX. Diagrams of Test Beams and Floors Showing Dimensions 398 404 432 SUMMARY OF THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING. ATLANTIC CITY, N. J., JUNE 29, JULY 1, 1905. THE EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TESTING MATERIALS was held at the Hotel Chalfonte, Atlantic City, N. J., on June 29-July 1, 1905. The total attendance at the meeting, including guests, was over 200. The following members were present or represented at the meeting: W. A. Aiken; Ajax Metal Company, represented by G. H. Clamer; American Bridge Company, represented by C. C. Schneider; American Foundrymen's Association, represented by Richard Moldenke; Ira O. Baker; James A. Beckett; Bethlehem Steel Company, represented by E. O'C. Acker; John Birkinbine; Joseph C. Blanch; A. Bonzano; Cyrus Borgner; W. A. Bostwick; W. H. Boughton; John G. Brown; Samuel A. Brown; W. L. Brown; Jacob Cambier; Cambria Steel Company, represented by Clinton R. Stewart; H. H. Campbell; William Campbell; John A. Capp; Carnegie Steel Company, represented by W. A. Bostwick; Carpenter Steel Company, represented by George W. Sargent; Central Iron and Coal Company, represented by J. Lodge; Frank P. Cheesman; James Christie; Charles H. Clifton; Albert Ladd Colby; J. Allen Colby; E. A. Condit, Jr.; P. H. Conradson; H. C. Crawford; Robert A. Cummings; Allerton S. Cushman; Nathan H. Davis; William M. Davis; Cyril De Wyrall; R. D. DeWolf; H. E. Diller; Joseph Dixon Crucible Company, represented by Malcolm McNaughton; A. W. Dow; W. C. DuComb, Jr.; Charles B. Dudley; W. O. Dunbar; M. Ward Easby; Daniel W. Edgerly; Theodore H. Ellis; Engineering Record, represented by John M. Goodell; S. M. Evans; W. W. Ewing; Henry Fay; C. N. Forrest; William Forsyth; Adam H. Fox; Lawford H. Fry; H. S. Goodwin; William F. M. Goss; Herbert T. Grantham; Russel S. Greenman; William L. Hall; Arthur B. Harrison; William K. Hatt; G. B. Heckel; George P. Hemstreet; Joseph A. Holmes; A. P. Hume; Richard L. Humphrey; John Andrew Hunter; Charles L. Huston; A. Lincoln Hyde; Illinois Steel Company, represented by P. E. Carhart; International Acheson Graphite Company, represented by A. M. Collins and E. C. Sprague; Iron Trade Review, represented by A. Van Zwaluwenburg; John M. Jeffers; Frederick E. Jenkins; Robert Job; Arthur N. Johnson; Lewis J. Johnson; W. Martin Johnson; C. R. Jones; Edgar B. Kay; Frank G. Kennedy, Jr.; E. F. Kenney; William Kent; J. A. Kinkead; Paul Kreuzpointner; Gaetano Lanza; E. S. Larned; Robert W. Lesley; J. B. Lober; Lukens Iron and Steel Company, represented by Charles L. Huston; T. D. Lynch; J. W. McGrady; E. McLean; John McLeod; Charles Major; Edgar Marburg; John A. Mathews; Richard K. Mead; Mansfield Merriman; William Metcalf; Rudolph P. Miller; Charles M. Mills; Leon S. Moisseff; Richard Moldenke; National Tube Company, represented by Frank N. Speller; F. H. Neff; E. D. Nelson; George L. Norris; Logan Waller Page; The Pennsylvania Steel Company, represented by H. H. Campbell; George E. Perley; J. Howard Pew; W. A. Polk; James Madison Porter; J. W. Prince; H. H. Quimby; Railroad Gazette, represented by R. C. Davison; J. C. Ramage; Louis E. Reber; C. S. Reeve; Clifford Richardson; Joseph Royal; A. H. Sabin; L. C. Sabin; Albert Sauveur; F. E. Schmitt; C. C. Schneider; Harry J. Seaman; Jesse J. Shuman; H. E. Smith; J. P. Snow; Henry S. Spackman Engineering Company, represented by E. W. Lazell; F. P. Spalding; C. R. Spare; Standard Steel Works, represented by George L. Norris; F. M. Stapleton; Clinton R. Stewart; P. M. Stewart; Bradley Stoughton; E. Stuetz; George F. Swain; Howard Taggart; Arthur N. Talbot; Henry P. Talbot; William Purves Taylor; Gustave W. Thompson; Sanford E. Thompson; Maximilian Toch; Enrique Touceda; N. B. Trist; F. E. Turneaure; C. P. Van Gundy; Herman von Schrenk; Joseph F. Walker; R. F. Walker; Leonard C. Wason; William R. Webster; Max H. Wickhorst; H. V. Wille; Paul L. Wolfel; Ira H. Woolson; Joseph R. Worcester; H. Winfield Wyman; Total number, 164 (including representations); total number in personal attendance, 155 |