Historical
ANSI/ASME PTC 19.23-1980
Guidance Manual For Model Testing
To prepare a compendium of techniques and methods for model testing. This general procedure is to serve as a guide for the design and application of models by those concerned with the extension or supplementation of prototype tests of equipment and apparatus coming under the aegis of the ASME Performance Test Codes Committee. Where there are test codes in existence covering specific equipment, the guiding principles, instruments and methods of measurement from such codes shall be used with only such modifications as become necessary by virtue of the fact that a model is being tested instead of a prototype. Where models of components, systems, etc. are involved, and no test codes covering these are in existence, guiding principles and methods of measurement may be requested from this Committee (PTC 19.23). A model is a device, machine, structure or system which can be used to predict the behavior of an actual and similar device, machine, structure or system which is called the prototype. A physical model may be smaller than, the same size as, or larger than the prototype. Initially, the Committee will consider only physical models for those prototypes covered by the Performance Test Codes Committee.
American Society of Mechanical Engineers [asme]