Standards for Testing the Probable Behaviour of Tank Blocks

JSGT 1931 V15 T030-T040

 In spite of the abundance of testing methods of the most varied character in refractory ceramics, up to the present it has not been found possible to establish a definite relation between the results obtained by laboratory tests and the endurance in practice of refractory materials for furnace construction. In consequence of the varied nature of furnace construction, of working conditions, and of the performance required, it is extraordinarily difficult, even today, to arrive at definite standard methods of testing which shall be valid over the manifold ranges of use of tank blocks.

W. Miehr (Translated by J. H. Davidson)