ASTM D618 – Standard Practice for Conditioning Plastics for Testing

Due to the very large number of tests offered, descriptions of those most commonly requested have been gathered into the following groups:

• Air Permeability Testing
  • ASTM D737 – Air Permeability of Textile Fabrics
• Axial-Torsion Testing
• Blast Testing – Armor, Blast Mitigation Materials, Custom Structures
• Carbon Fiber-Reinforced Epoxy Testing
  • ASTM D3531 – Resin Flow
  • ASTM D3532 – Gel Time
• Component Testing
• Compression Testing
  • ASTM C365 – Flatwise Compressive Properties of Sandwich Cores
  • ASTM C1358 – Compression Testing of Fiber Reinforced Advanced Ceramics
  • ASTM D695 – Compression Testing of Rigid Plastics
    • SACMA Compression
  • ASTM D1621 – Compression Testing of Rigid Cellular Plastics
  • ASTM D3410 – Compression Testing of Polymer Matrix Composite Materials using Unsupported Gage Section by Shear Loading
  • ASTM D6641 – Compression Testing of Polymer Matrix Composite Materials using Combined Loading Compression (CLC)
  • ASTM E9 – Compression Testing of Metals
  • ISO 604 – Plastics – Determination of Compressive Properties
  • ISO 844 – Rigid Cellular Plastics – Determination of Compression Properties
• Conditioning
  • ASTM D618 – Standard Practice for Conditioning Plastics for Testing
  • ASTM D5229 – Moisture Absorption Properties and Equilibrium Conditioning of Polymer Matrix Composite Materials
  • ISO 291 – Plastics – Standard Atmospheres for Conditioning and Testing
• Creep/Stress Rupture Testing
  • ASTM D2990 – Tensile, Compressive and Flexural Creep and Creep-Rupture of Plastics
  • ASTM E139 – Conducting Creep, Creep-Rupture and Stress-Rupture Tests on Metallic Material
• Density Testing
  • ASTM C271 – Density of Sandwich Core Materials
• Fatigue Testing
  • ASTM C1360 – Constant Amplitude, Axial, Tension-Tension Cyclic Fatigue Testing of Continuous Fiber-Reinforced Advanced Ceramics
    • Tests can be performed at temperatures up to 2500 °F
  • ASTM C1361 – Constant Amplitude, Axial, Tension-Tension Cyclic Fatigue Testing of Advanced Ceramics
    • Tests can be performed at temperatures up to 2500 °F
  • ASTM D3479 – Tension – Tension Fatigue Testing of Polymer Matrix Composite Materials
  • ASTM D7791 – Uniaxial Fatigue Properties of Plastics
  • ASTM E466 – Force Controller Constant Amplitude Axial Fatigue Testing of Metallic Materials
    • Tests can be performed at temperatures up to 2200 °F
  • ASTM E606 – Strain-Controlled Fatigue Testing
    • Tests can be performed at temperatures up to 2200 °F
  • ASTM E647 – Measurement of Fatigue Crack Growth Rates (da/dN)
• Fiber Push-Out SEM Testing
• Flexural Strength Testing
  • ASTM C158 – Strength of Glass by Flexure
  • ASTM C393 – Core Shear Properties Testing of Sandwich Constructions by Beam Flexure
  • ASTM C651 – Flexural Strength of Carbon and Graphite by Four-Point Loading
  • ASTM C1161 – Flexural Strength Testing of Advanced Ceramics
  • ASTM C1341 – Flexural Properties of Continuous Fiber-Reinforced Advanced Ceramic Composites
  • ASTM D790 – Flexural Properties Testing of Unreinforced and Reinforced Plastics
  • ASTM D4476 – Flexural Properties Testing of Fiber Reinforced Pultruded Plastic Rods
  • ASTM D6272 – Flexural Properties Testing of Unreinforced and Reinforced Plastics by Four-Point Bending
  • ASTM D7264 – Flexural Properties Testing of Polymer Matrix Composite Materials
  • ISO 178 – Plastics – Determination of Flexural Properties
  • ISO 14125 (Method B) – Fibre-Reinforced Plastic Composites – Determination of Flexural Properties
• Formability Testing
  • ASTM E643 – Ball Punch Deformation Testing of Metallic Sheet Material
  • DIN EN 1669 – Earing Test for Sheet and Strip Aluminum and Aluminum Alloys
• Fracture Toughness Testing
  • ASTM B646 – Fracture Toughness Testing of Aluminum Alloys
  • ASTM E399 – (K-Value) Linear-Elastic Plane-Strain Fracture Toughness of Metallic Materials
  • ASTM E561 – K-R Curve Determination Testing
  • ASTM E740 – Fracture Testing with Surface-Crack Tension Specimens
  • ASTM E1820 -Measurement of Fracture Toughness
    • Plane Stress / Plane Strain
• Impact / Drop Weight Testing
  • ASTM D256 – Izod Pendulum Impact Resistance of Plastics
  • ASTM E23 – Notched Bar Impact Test of Metallic Materials
  • ASTM E436 – Drop-Weight Tear Tests for Ferritic Steels
  • High Energy Drop Weight Impact Testing
• Metal Matrix Composites
• Peel Testing
  • ASTM D1781 – Climbing drum Peel for Adhesives
  • ASTM E2004 – Facing Cleavage of Sandwich Panels
• Poisson’s Ratio Testing
  • ASTM E132 – Testing Poisson’s Ratio at Room Temperature
    • -150 °F to +300 °F
• Puncture Testing
  • ASTM D4833 – Puncture Resistance of Geomembranes and Related Products
• Shear Testing
  • ASTM B769 – Shear Testing of Aluminum Alloys
  • ASTM C273 – Shear Properties Testing of Sandwich Core Materials
  • ASTM C1292 – Shear Strength Testing of Continuous Fiber-Reinforced Advanced Ceramics
  • ASTM D732 – Shear Strength Testing of Plastics
  • ASTM D2344 – Short-Beam Strength Testing of Polymer Matrix Composite Materials (Interlaminar Shear)
  • ASTM D3528 – Strength Properties Testing of Double Lap Shear Adhesive Joints by Tension Loading
  • ASTM D3846 – In-Plane Shear Strength Testing of Reinforced Plastics
  • ASTM D3914 – In-Plane Shear Strength Testing of Pultruded Glass-Reinforced Plastic Rods
  • ASTM D5379 – Shear Properties Testing of Composite Materials by the V-Notched Beam Method (Iosipescu Shear)
  • ASTM D7078 – Shear Properties Testing of Composite Materials by V-Notched Rail Shear
  • ISO 1922 – Determination of Shear Strength of Rigid Cellular Plastics
  • ISO 4587 – Tensile Lap-Shear Strength of Rigid-to-Rigid Bonded Assemblies
• Stress-Corrosion Testing
  • ASTM G38 – Standard Practice for Making and Using C-Ring Stress-Corrosion Test Specimens
  • ASTM G49 – Standard Preparation and Use of Direct Tension Stress-Corrosion Test Specimens
  • ASTM G64 – Classification of Resistance to Stress-Corrosion Cracking of Heat-Treatable Aluminum Alloys
  • ASTM G139 – Determination of Stress-Corrosion Cracking Resistance of Heat-Treatable Aluminum Alloy Products Using Breaking Load Method
• Tensile Testing
  • ASTM C297 – Flatwise Tensile Strength of Sandwich Constructions
  • ASTM C565 – Tension Testing of Carbon and Graphite Mechanical Materials
  • ASTM C1147 – Short Term Tensile Weld Strength of Chemical-Resistant Thermoplastics
  • ASTM C1275 – Tensile Testing of Continuous Fiber-Reinforced Advanced Ceramics (CFCC’s)
  • ASTM C1359 – Monotonic Tensile Strength Testing of Fiber-Reinforced Advanced Ceramics
  • ASTM C1468 – Transthickness Tensile Strength of Continuous Fiber-Reinforced Advanced Ceramics at Ambient Temperature
  • ASTM D638 – Tensile Testing of Plastics
  • ASTM D882 – Tensile Testing of Thin Plastic Sheeting
  • ASTM D885 – Tensile Properties of Tire Cords, Tire Cord Fabrics, and Industrial Filament Yarns
  • ASTM D3039 – Tensile Testing of Polymer Matrix Composites
  • ASTM D3822 – – Tensile Properties of Single Textile Fibers
  • ASTM D3916 – Tensile Testing of Glass-Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Rods
  • ASTM D4533 – Trapezoid Tearing Strength of Geotextiles
  • ASTM D4632 – Grab Breaking Load and Elongation of Geotextiles
  • ASTM D5179 – Tensile Testing of Organic Coatings to Plastic Substrates
  • ASTM E8 – Tensile Testing of Metals
  • ASTM E21 – Tensile Testing of Metals at Elevated Temperatures (up to 2500 °F)
  • ASTM E238 – Pin Bearing Test of Metallics
  • ASTM E338 – Sharp Notch Tension Testing of High Strength Sheet Materials
  • ASTM E345 – Tension Testing of Metallic Foil
  • ASTM E517 – Plastic Strain Ratio “r” for Sheet Metal
  • ASTM E646 – Tensile Strain-Hardening Exponents (n-Values) of Metallic Sheet Metals
  • ISO 527-1 – Tensile Properties of Plastics
  • ISO 527-3 – Tensile Properties of Plastic Films and Sheets
  • ISO 6892-1 – Tensile Testing Metallic Materials at Room Temperature
  • ISO 6892-2 – Tensile Testing Metallic Materials at Elevated Temperature
  • True Stress / True Strain
• Thermal Expansion Testing
  • ASTM E228 – Linear Thermal Expansion of Solid Materials with a Push-Rod Dilatometer