American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM). Current edition approved Mar. 1, 2005. Published March 2005. Originally appproved in 1986. Last previous edition approved 1999 as B 754 – 89 (1999). 5 p. This test method describes a procedure for the measurement of distortions in thin metal strip and the application of these measurements to an equation that will indicate the deviation from flatness.