ASTM C896-04

Standard Terminology Relating to Clay Products

General Information

• Status: Historical
• Publication Date: 31-Oct-2004
• ICS: 01.040.91 - Construction materials and building (Vocabularies)
• ICS: 91.100.15 - Mineral materials and products
• Technical Committee: C04 - Vitrified Clay Pipe
• Drafting Committee: C04.10 - Editorial

Relations

• Replaces: ASTM C896-02 - Standard Terminology Relating to Clay Products
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2004
• Replaced By: ASTM C896-04(2009) - Standard Terminology Relating to Clay Products
• Effective Date: 01-Oct-2009
• Referred By: ASTM C315-07(2021) - Standard Specification for Clay Flue Liners and Chimney Pots
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2004
• Referred By: ASTM C301-18(2022) - Standard Test Methods for Vitrified Clay Pipe
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2004
• Referred By: ASTM C425-22 - Standard Specification for Compression Joints for Vitrified Clay Pipe and Fittings
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2004
• Referred By: ASTM C12-22a - Standard Practice for Installing Vitrified Clay Pipe Lines
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2004
• Referred By: ASTM C828-23 - Standard Test Method for Low-Pressure Air Test of Vitrified Clay Pipe Lines
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2004
• Referred By: ASTM E2266-22 - Standard Guide for Design and Construction of Low-Rise Frame Building Wall Systems to Resist Water Intrusion
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2004
• Referred By: ASTM C1283-15(2021) - Standard Practice for Installing Clay Flue Lining
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2004
• Referred By: ASTM C4-04(2018) - Standard Specification for Clay Drain Tile and Perforated Clay Drain Tile
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2004
• Referred By: ASTM C1208/C1208M-18(2022) - Standard Specification for Vitrified Clay Pipe and Joints for Use in Microtunneling, Sliplining, Pipe Bursting, and Tunnels
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2004
• Referred By: ASTM C159-06(2021) - Standard Specification for Vitrified Clay Filter Blocks
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2004
• Referred By: ASTM C1091-03a(2022) - Standard Test Method for Hydrostatic Infiltration Testing of Vitrified Clay Pipe Lines
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2004
• Referred By: ASTM C700-18(2022) - Standard Specification for Vitrified Clay Pipe, Extra Strength, Standard Strength, and Perforated
• Effective Date: 01-Nov-2004

Standards Content (Sample)

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Designation:C896–04
Standard Terminology Relating to
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Clay Products
This standard is issued under the fixed designation C 896; the number immediately following the designation indicates the year of
original adoption or, in the case of revision, the year of last revision. A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval. A
superscript epsilon (e) indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.
1. Referenced Documents chip—a small piece of broken-off material, or the location
2 where a small piece of the unit material has been broken off.
1.1 ASTM Standards:
clay—an earthy or stony mineral aggregate consisting essen-
C 301 Test Methods for Vitrified Clay Pipe
tially of hydrous silicates of alumina, plastic when suffi-
C 700 Specification for Vitrified Clay Pipe, Extra Strength,
ciently pulverized and wetted, rigid when dry, and vitreous
Standard Strength, and Perforated
when fired to a sufficiently high temperature.
2. Terminology
closure—See compression joint.
compaction—mechanical or hydraulic consolidation of back-
approving authority—the individual official, board, depart-
fill to achieve stability.
ment, or agency established and authorized by a state,
compression coupling—See compression joint.
county, city, or other political subdivision, created by law to
compression disk—a disk of compressible material placed
administer and enforce specified requirements.
between the ends of adjacent pipe for the purpose of
backfill—all the material used to fill the trench from bedding
distributing the jacking force.
to finished surface.
compression joint—a joint designed so that a sealing action is
backfill, final—material used to fill the trench from initial
obtained by compressing elastomeric components.
backfill to finished surface.
conduit—a pipe for conveying fluid.
backfill, initial—material used to fill the trench from top of
consolidation—the gradual reduction in volume of backfill
bedding to a designated height over the pipe.
matter to achieve stability.
backfill, unconsolidated—non-compacted material in place in
constant weight—the condition of a substance in which all
the trench.
volatile components have been vaporized, and repeated
barrel—the cylindrical portion of a vitrified clay pipe exclu-
exposure to a specified temperature, for any period of time,
sive of branches, spurs, joints, and handling rings or lugs.
causes no change in weight.
bearing strength—the non-destructive limit of pipe load, as
controlled low strength material (CLSM)—flowable low
determinedby3-edgebearingtestmethod,usedtodetermine
compressive strength cementitious material used in the pipe
field supporting strength.
zone as a bedding material. Also referred to as controlled
bedding—the materials, their placement, consolidation, and
density fill, flowable fill, slurry, or lean concrete.
configuration, as designed to support, and to develop field
crack—an irregular separation with well-defined sharp edges
supporting strength of vitrified clay pipe.
visible on the surface of a pipe.
bell—the flared-end portion of a vitrified clay pipe or fitting,
deadload—the load imposed on pipe, that is determined by
designed to function in the joining of other such pipe.
depth and width of the trench at top of pipe, as well as unit
beveled pipe—a pipe with an end angled to mate with a
weight and character of backfill material.
complimentary pipe end or adjust to another surface.
drains—a piping system used to collect and carry off surface
blister—a convex, raised area on the pipe surface indicating an
and ground water.
internal separation.
encasement—special materials, their placement and configu-
body—See pipe body.
ration which are designed to fully surround the pipe, and
develop a field supporting strength which exceeds that
developed by other commonly used installation and bedding
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This terminology is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee C04 on
techniques.
Vitrified Clay Pipe and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee C04.10 on
exfiltration—the quality of water leaving the test section
Editorial.
during a specified time period.
Current edition approved Nov. 1, 2004. Published December 2004. Originally
approved in 1978. Last previous edition approved in 2002 as C 896 – 02.
face—to cover with a new surface.
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For referenced ASTM standards, visit the ASTM website, www.astm.org, or
filter block—a cellular vitrified clay block unit, of proprietary
contact ASTM Customer Service at [e-mail]. For Annual Book of ASTM
configuration, designed to underbed the media in trickling
Standards volume information, refer to the standard’s Document Summary page on
the ASTM website. filters.
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