AS 3972-1997

Specifies requirements for hydraulic cements consisting of portland cement or of mixtures of portland cement and one or both of fly ash and ground granulated iron blast-furnace slag.

This Standard specifies requirements for hydraulic cements consisting of portland cement or of mixtures of portland cement and one or more of fly ash, ground granulated iron blast-furnace slag or silica fume.It does not purport to provide for all the requirements which may be needed in specific applications of such cements.NOTE: Background information on the development of this Standard as a performance-based specification of cement is given in Appendix A.

First published in part as AS A2-1925.
Second edition AS A2-1926.
Third edtion 1937.
Fourth edition 1938.
Fifth edition 1948.
Sixth edition 1953.
Seventh edition 1963.
AS A181 first published 1971.
Revised and redesignated AS 1317-1972.
AS A2-1963 revised and redesignated AS 1315-1973.
AS A2-1963 withdrawn 1976.
AS A181-1971 withdrawn 1976.
AS 1315-1973 revised in part as AS 1315-1982.
Second edition AS 1317-1982.
AS 1315-1982 and AS 1317-1982 revised, amalgmated and redesignated AS 3972-1991.
Second edition 1997.