The Tile Council lab named abrasion, absorption, and the Robinson floor test
A 5 April 2017 Tile Council release says the association's lab supplied the measurements behind ANSI A137.3-2017 and ANSI A108.19-2017. The lab director's comment then names other standards work that was underway or recent, so the gauged documents were not the lab's only assignment.
The methods named in that comment
The list is a new surface abrasion method for ceramic tiles, multiple water-absorption methods, various aspects of the glass tile standard, ongoing coefficient-of-friction studies, and the Robinson floor test method. The release names those workstreams. It does not spell out the pass-fail tables for each one.
How the lab staffs the work
The same comment says a standards team takes each assignment and pulls in other staff when a specialty is needed. That is an account of who measures, not a substitute for the finished standard.
Source
Fetched 2026-10-11 from Tile Council lab standards release. The sentences above follow that page. They are not a contractor promise.
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