This guide establishes a formalism for transferring corrosion test data between computer systems in different laboratories. It will be used by standards developers to specify the format of files containing test results.

This guide defines a generic approach to structuring data files. It will be used by software developers to create programs which read and write these files.

Each standard test procedure will define a unique data file derived from this guide. Each time a standard test is performed, the results can be summarized in a data file specific to that test.

Some experimental information will be global, that is, common to several standards, and will be contained in Guide G 107 and other global data dictionaries. Other information will be local, that is, unique to a given standard, and will be defined in that standard.

1.1 This guide covers the techniques used to encode corrosion of metals test results for exchange between computer systems.

1.2 Guidelines are given for creating a data exchange appendix for each ASTM corrosion of metals standard.

1.3 Instructions are given for creating data translation software from the contents of the data exchange appendix.