A structured guide to product standards, application specifications, design guidance, test methods, materials, and interfaces relevant to polymer concrete.
Standards do different jobs. A product specification can set requirements for a finished pipe or manhole; a test method only defines how one property is measured. Treating those documents as interchangeable creates false claims of compliance and misleading comparisons.
This library identifies each document's function and direct scope. A listing is not an endorsement, and omission is not a judgment against a document or technology.
These documents address a finished product or product system rather than one isolated material property.
Requirements for circular precast reinforced polymer-concrete manholes used in sanitary and storm sewers, including materials, physical and chemical properties, structural design, manufacturing, quality control, documentation, and warranty.
Polymer-concrete pipe for gravity sanitary sewer, stormwater, and industrial-waste service, including buried, jacked, and certain rehabilitation installations. Covers product classes, dimensions, load performance, pressure integrity, and chemical-resistance provisions.
European product framework for polyester resin concrete pipes, fittings, and flexible joints in buried non-pressure drainage and sewerage, covering multiple installation methods and bore geometries, product performance, joints, and factory production control.
European requirements for polyester resin concrete manholes and inspection chambers used in buried non-pressure drainage and sewer systems, including units, joints, characteristics, testing, marking, and conformity evaluation.
Material-neutral performance requirements for grade-level telecommunications and low-voltage enclosures in non-deliberate traffic areas. Commonly applied to polymer-concrete handholes and small utility enclosures; its tier ratings are not deliberate roadway-traffic ratings.
These govern a particular installed system or construction application. They should not be presented as general standards for every form of polymer concrete.
Construction specification for epoxy multi-layer polymer overlay systems used on bridge and parking-garage decks.
Requirements for epoxy slurry polymer overlays on bridge and parking-garage decks.
Requirements for methyl methacrylate slurry overlay systems used on bridge and parking-garage decks.
Specification for epoxy-mortar repair of concrete. Relevant to polymer mortar as a repair system, but not a general precast polymer-concrete product standard.
Foundational background on polymer-impregnated concrete, polymer concrete, polymer-cement concrete, materials, handling, construction, applications, and safety.
General guidance connecting polymer-concrete material behavior with structural analysis, design, testing, production, and member performance. It is guidance, not a product specification.
Vehicle, pedestrian, surcharge, impact, and dead-load inputs for underground precast utility structures. It supplies loading assumptions, not a complete product design or material specification.
Guidance for nonprestressed FRP reinforcement in structural hydraulic-cement concrete. Its material behavior and design concepts are relevant to PC reinforcement discussions, but applicability to polymer concrete must be established rather than assumed.
Minimum requirements for materials, design, detailing, construction, and inspection of structural concrete reinforced with GFRP bars. ACI SPEC-548.17 draws on this framework, but its application to polymer-concrete members is controlled by the product specification and project requirements.
A test-method designation does not itself supply an acceptance limit or prove whole-product performance.
Defines specialized terms used by the ASTM family covering chemical-resistant materials and polymer concrete. It supports consistent interpretation but supplies neither test procedures nor acceptance requirements.
Compression procedures with specimen methods selected principally by aggregate size. Results should not be treated as directly interchangeable with hydraulic-cement concrete results from ASTM C39.
Center-point flexural testing and calculation of tangent and secant flexural modulus for polymer concretes and related chemical-resistant materials.
Measures curing shrinkage and thermal expansion of polymer concretes and related chemical-resistant materials using cast bars. The method is limited to materials with aggregate no larger than 6 mm (0.25 in.).
Measures chord modulus of elasticity and Poisson's ratio of concrete cylinders and cores under compression. Where a polymer-concrete specification invokes it, specimen preparation and interpretation remain important; invocation does not make the result universally interchangeable with hydraulic-cement concrete data.
Determines tensile strength using molded briquets and is useful for cure development and resin-bound mortars, grouts, and surfacings. It is not recommended for materials containing aggregate larger than 6 mm (0.25 in.) and is not a general structural-member tensile test.
Exposure methods evaluating changes in mass, appearance, test medium, and compressive strength. Test media and conditions should represent the anticipated service environment; the result is not a universal service-life prediction.
Measures absorption under a defined procedure. Absorption is not synonymous with permeability, joint watertightness, or long-term durability.
A methods collection for hydraulic-cement concrete pipe and manhole sections, including load, absorption, hydrostatic, core, and step tests. It applies to PC only where another governing document deliberately invokes a method.
A negative-air-pressure procedure used before backfill to evaluate an assembled sewer manhole at the time of testing. ASTM identifies it as a non-routine test and reports no established correlation between vacuum and hydrostatic results.
Requirements for flexible watertight rubber-gasket joints for covered concrete pipe and manhole products. It governs the gasketed joint, not the pipe or manhole body.
Requirements for preformed bitumen- or butyl-based sealants used in concrete pipe, manhole, and box-section joints.
Minimum material, design, and performance requirements for resilient connectors at pipe-to-structure interfaces. It addresses the connection and its leakage resistance, not the polymer-concrete body or the watertightness of the complete installed system.
Material, geometric, mechanical, physical, qualification, and production-control requirements for solid round GFRP reinforcing bars. It qualifies the reinforcing product; it does not provide the structural design of a polymer-concrete member.
Aggregate grading and quality requirements for hydraulic-cement concrete. Certain PC product standards incorporate selected requirements while modifying or waiving others; C33 should not automatically be applied as a complete PC aggregate specification.
The established hydraulic-cement concrete manhole specification. It is an important market and interface comparator but does not establish polymer-concrete manhole compliance.
Design criteria and manufacturing practices for precast hydraulic-cement concrete utility structures, excluding C478 manholes. Useful context for vaults and handholes, but not a polymer-concrete enclosure specification.
The familiar hydraulic-cement concrete compression method. Comparisons with PC tested under C579 must disclose the different specimen and procedural frameworks.
General plastics immersion and stressed-exposure practices. Useful where explicitly invoked, but not a substitute for PC-specific or finished-product chemical qualification.
Defines terminology used across concrete pipe and related-product standards. It helps interpret incorporated product language but creates no independent performance or acceptance requirement.
General definitions used in ASTM plastics standards. It is relevant where a polymer-concrete document adopts plastics terminology, but it is not a polymer-concrete material or product standard.
A hydraulic-cement concrete splitting-tensile method referenced by ACI SPEC-548.17 and subsequently withdrawn by ASTM in 2026. Projects should identify the invoked edition and governing specification rather than assuming a current standalone ASTM method.
