MIL-STD-810E Silica Dust and Silica Sand

The primary emphases of MIL-STD-810E are tailoring a materiel item’s environmental design and test limits to the conditions that the specific materiel will experience throughout its service life, and establishing laboratory test methods that replicate the effects of environments on materiel, rather than trying to reproduce the environments themselves.

MIL-STD-810E SILICA SAND
(Good Commercial Quality Crushed Quartz)
Particle Size Distribution
Specified
Size (µm)
USA Test Sieve Designation Specified Range
(% Retained by weight)
850 20 1.0 +/- 0.5
590 30 1.7 +/- 0.5
420 40 14.8 +/- 1.5
300 50 37.0 +/- 2.0
212 70 28.6 +/- 2.0
149 100 12.7 +/- 1.5
-149 -100 5.2 +/- 1.0
Available in one gallon jars containing 4.5kg of material.
MIL-STD-810E SILICA DUST
(Good Commercial Quality Crushed Quartz)
Particle Size Distribution
Specified
Size (µm)
USA Test Sieve Designation Specified Range
(% Passing)
149 100 100
106 140 98 +/-2
75 200 90 +/-2
45 325 75 +/-2
Available in one gallon jars containing 3.5kg of material.
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