ASTM Volume 03.01 Metals – Mechanical Testing; Elevated and Low-Temperature Tests; Metallography  

Volume 03.01 covers tests and practices for mechanical testing procedures, including: machine calibration, bend and flexure testing, compression, ductility, formability, elastic properties, impact, linear thermal expansion, shear, torsion, residual stress, tension testing, structural films for MEMS, and electronic applications. Other standards cover fatigue and fracture testing of materials, including crack tip opening displacement (CTOD), fracture toughness measurement, and linear elastic plane-strain fracture toughness of metallic materials. Also featured are metallography tests and practices that define standard optical, electron, and X-ray procedures for determining the constituents and structure of metals and alloys.

 

ASTM Volume 03.01 Metals – Mechanical Testing; Elevated and Low-Temperature Tests; Metallography contains:  

 

E1823-21 Standard Terminology Relating to Fatigue and Fracture Testing

E6-15e4 Standard Terminology Relating to Methods of Mechanical Testing

E21-20 Standard Test Methods for Elevated Temperature Tension Tests of Metallic Materials

E1237-20 Standard Guide for Installing Bonded Resistance Strain Gages

E837-20 Standard Test Method for Determining Residual Stresses by the Hole-Drilling Strain-Gage Method

E3039-20 Standard Test Method for Determination of Crack-Tip-Opening Angle of Ferritic Steels Using DWTT-Type Specimens

E251-20a Standard Test Methods for Performance Characteristics of Metallic Bonded Resistance Strain Gages

E1685-20 Standard Practice for Measuring the Change in Length of Bolts Using the Ultrasonic Pulse-Echo Technique

E604-18 Standard Test Method for Dynamic Tear Testing of Metallic Materials

E1077-14(2021) Standard Test Methods for Estimating the Depth of Decarburization of Steel Specimens

E2207-15(2021) Standard Practice for Strain-Controlled Axial-Torsional Fatigue Testing with Thin-Walled Tubular Specimens

E328-21 Standard Test Methods for Stress Relaxation for Materials and Structures

E2860-20 Standard Test Method for Residual Stress Measurement by X-Ray Diffraction for Bearing Steels

E143-20 Standard Test Method for Shear Modulus at Room Temperature

E436-03(2021) Standard Test Method for Drop-Weight Tear Tests of Ferritic Steels

E467-21 Standard Practice for Verification of Constant Amplitude Dynamic Forces in an Axial Fatigue Testing System

E606/E606M-21 Standard Test Method for Strain-Controlled Fatigue Testing

E643-15 Standard Test Method for Ball Punch Deformation of Metallic Sheet Material

E2428-15a Standard Practice for Calibration and Verification of Torque Transducers

E2712-15 Standard Test Methods for Bulge-Forming Superplastic Metallic Sheet

E466-21 Standard Practice for Conducting Force Controlled Constant Amplitude Axial Fatigue Tests of Metallic Materials

E2218-15 Standard Test Method for Determining Forming Limit Curves

E739-10(2015) Standard Practice for Statistical Analysis of Linear or Linearized Stress-Life (S-N) and Strain-Life (ε-N) Fatigue Data

E2142-08(2015) Standard Test Methods for Rating and Classifying Inclusions in Steel Using the Scanning Electron Microscope

E2546-15 Standard Practice for Instrumented Indentation Testing

E1949-21 Standard Test Method for Ambient Temperature Fatigue Life of Metallic Bonded Resistance Strain Gages

E1875-20a Standard Test Method for Dynamic Young's Modulus, Shear Modulus, and Poisson's Ratio by Sonic Resonance

E1319-21 Standard Guide for High-Temperature Static Strain Measurement

E855-21 Standard Test Methods for Bend Testing of Metallic Flat Materials for Spring Applications Involving Static Loading

E2567-16a Standard Test Method for Determining Nodularity And Nodule Count In Ductile Iron Using Image Analysis

E740/E740M-03(2016) Standard Practice for Fracture Testing with Surface-Crack Tension Specimens

E1450-16 Standard Test Method for Tension Testing of Structural Alloys in Liquid Helium

E238-17a Standard Test Method for Pin-Type Bearing Test of Metallic Materials

E103-17 Standard Practice for Rapid Indentation Hardness Testing of Metallic Materials

E81-96(2017) Standard Test Method for Preparing Quantitative Pole Figures

E1180-08(2021) Standard Practice for Preparing Sulfur Prints for Macrostructural Evaluation

E986-04(2017) Standard Practice for Scanning Electron Microscope Beam Size Characterization

E883-11(2017) Standard Guide for Reflected–Light Photomicrography

E1049-85(2017) Standard Practices for Cycle Counting in Fatigue Analysis

E1304-97(2020) Standard Test Method for Plane-Strain (Chevron-Notch) Fracture Toughness of Metallic Materials

E132-17 Standard Test Method for Poisson’s Ratio at Room Temperature

E2624-17 Standard Practice for Torque Calibration of Testing Machines

E190-21 Standard Test Method for Guided Bend Test for Ductility of Welds

E1245-03(2016) Standard Practice for Determining the Inclusion or Second-Phase Constituent Content of Metals by Automatic Image Analysis

E2658-15 Standard Practices for Verification of Speed for Material Testing Machines

E930-18 Standard Test Methods for Estimating the Largest Grain Observed in a Metallographic Section (ALA Grain Size)

E517-19 Standard Test Method for Plastic Strain Ratio r for Sheet Metal

E209-18 Standard Practice for Compression Tests of Metallic Materials at Elevated Temperatures with Conventional or Rapid Heating Rates and Strain Rates

E9-19 Standard Test Methods of Compression Testing of Metallic Materials at Room Temperature

E468-18 Standard Practice for Presentation of Constant Amplitude Fatigue Test Results for Metallic Materials

E646-16 Standard Test Method for Tensile Strain-Hardening Exponents (n -Values) of Metallic Sheet Materials

E3097-17 Standard Test Method for Mechanical Uniaxial Constant Force Thermal Cycling of Shape Memory Alloys

E3098-17 Standard Test Method for Mechanical Uniaxial Pre-strain and Thermal Free Recovery of Shape Memory Alloys

E1382-97(2015) Standard Test Methods for Determining Average Grain Size Using Semiautomatic and Automatic Image Analysis

E2245-11(2018) Standard Test Method for Residual Strain Measurements of Thin, Reflecting Films Using an Optical Interferometer

E2244-11(2018) Standard Test Method for In-Plane Length Measurements of Thin, Reflecting Films Using an Optical Interferometer

E2444-11(2018) Standard Terminology Relating to Measurements Taken on Thin, Reflecting Films

E2246-11(2018) Standard Test Method for Strain Gradient Measurements of Thin, Reflecting Films Using an Optical Interferometer

E2208-02(2018)e1 Standard Guide for Evaluating Non-Contacting Optical Strain Measurement Systems

E83-16 Standard Practice for Verification and Classification of Extensometer Systems

E2298-18 Standard Test Method for Instrumented Impact Testing of Metallic Materials

E2443-05(2018)e1 Standard Guide for Verifying Computer-Generated Test Results Through The Use Of Standard Data Sets

E2448-18 Standard Test Method for Determining the Superplastic Properties of Metallic Sheet Materials

E92-17 Standard Test Methods for Vickers Hardness and Knoop Hardness of Metallic Materials

E2248-18 Standard Test Method for Impact Testing of Miniaturized Charpy V-notch Specimens

E140-12B(2019)e1 Standard Hardness Conversion Tables for Metals Relationship Among Brinell Hardness, Vickers Hardness, Rockwell Hardness, Superficial Hardness, Knoop Hardness, Scleroscope Hardness, and Leeb Hardness

E384-17 Standard Test Method for Microindentation Hardness of Materials

E647-15e1 Standard Test Method for Measurement of Fatigue Crack Growth Rates

E23-18 Standard Test Methods for Notched Bar Impact Testing of Metallic Materials

E2368-10(2017) Standard Practice for Strain Controlled Thermomechanical Fatigue Testing

E139-11(2018) Standard Test Methods for Conducting Creep, Creep-Rupture, and Stress-Rupture Tests of Metallic Materials

E1012-19 Standard Practice for Verification of Testing Frame and Specimen Alignment Under Tensile and Compressive Axial Force Application

E1181-02(2015) Standard Test Methods for Characterizing Duplex Grain Sizes

E3-11(2017) Standard Guide for Preparation of Metallographic Specimens

E407-07(2015)e1 Standard Practice for Microetching Metals and Alloys

E10-18 Standard Test Method for Brinell Hardness of Metallic Materials

E1268-19 Standard Practice for Assessing the Degree of Banding or Orientation of Microstructures

E3076-18 Standard Practice for Determination of the Slope in the Linear Region of a Test Record

E74-18e1 Standard Practices for Calibration and Verification for Force-Measuring Instruments

E45-18a Standard Test Methods for Determining the Inclusion Content of Steel

E340-15 Standard Practice for Macroetching Metals and Alloys

E292-18 Standard Test Methods for Conducting Time-for-Rupture Notch Tension Tests of Materials

E768-99(2018) Standard Guide for Preparing and Evaluating Specimens for Automatic Inclusion Assessment of Steel

E1951-14(2019) Standard Guide for Calibrating Reticles and Light Microscope Magnifications

E1426-14(2019)e1 Standard Test Method for Determining the X-Ray Elastic Constants for Use in the Measurement of Residual Stress Using X-Ray Diffraction Techniques

E1928-13(2019) Standard Practice for Estimating the Approximate Residual Circumferential Stress in Straight Thin-walled Tubing

E2818-11(2019) Standard Practice for Determination of Quasistatic Fracture Toughness of Welds

E1942-98(2018)e1 Standard Guide for Evaluating Data Acquisition Systems Used in Cyclic Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics Testing

E7-17 Standard Terminology Relating to Metallography

E82/E82M-14(2019) Standard Test Method for Determining the Orientation of a Metal Crystal

E766-14(2019) Standard Practice for Calibrating the Magnification of a Scanning Electron Microscope

E1508-12a(2019) Standard Guide for Quantitative Analysis by Energy-Dispersive Spectroscopy

E111-17 Standard Test Method for Young’s Modulus, Tangent Modulus, and Chord Modulus

E2283-08(2019) Standard Practice for Extreme Value Analysis of Nonmetallic Inclusions in Steel and Other Microstructural Features

E2627-13(2019) Standard Practice for Determining Average Grain Size Using Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) in Fully Recrystallized Polycrystalline Materials

E345-16 Standard Test Methods of Tension Testing of Metallic Foil

E2309/E2309M-20 Standard Practices for Verification of Displacement Measuring Systems and Devices Used in Material Testing Machines

E4-21 Standard Practices for Force Calibration and Verification of Testing Machines

E2714-13(2020) Standard Test Method for Creep-Fatigue Testing

E1221-12A(2018)e1 Standard Test Method for Determining Plane-Strain Crack-Arrest Fracture Toughness, KIa, of Ferritic Steels

E2472-12(2018)e1 Standard Test Method for Determination of Resistance to Stable Crack Extension under Low-Constraint Conditions

E2899-19e1 Standard Test Method for Measurement of Initiation Toughness in Surface Cracks Under Tension and Bending

E1457-19e1 Standard Test Method for Measurement of Creep Crack Growth Times in Metals

E2760-19e1 Standard Test Method for Creep-Fatigue Crack Growth Testing

E290-14 Standard Test Methods for Bend Testing of Material for Ductility

E110-14 Standard Test Method for Rockwell and Brinell Hardness of Metallic Materials by Portable Hardness Testers

E562-19e1 Standard Test Method for Determining Volume Fraction by Systematic Manual Point Count

E1681-03(2020) Standard Test Method for Determining Threshold Stress Intensity Factor for Environment-Assisted Cracking of Metallic Materials

E1351-01(2020) Standard Practice for Production and Evaluation of Field Metallographic Replicas

E2014-17 Standard Guide on Metallographic Laboratory Safety

E208-20 Standard Test Method for Conducting Drop-Weight Test to Determine Nil-Ductility Transition Temperature of Ferritic Steels

E1561-20 Standard Practice for Analysis of Strain Gage Rosette Data

E2015-04(2021) Standard Guide for Preparation of Plastics and Polymeric Specimens for Microstructural Examination

E2109-01(2021) Standard Test Methods for Determining Area Percentage Porosity in Thermal Sprayed Coatings

E1920-03(2021) Standard Guide for Metallographic Preparation of Thermal Sprayed Coatings

E1558-09(2021) Standard Guide for Electrolytic Polishing of Metallographic Specimens

E112-13(2021) Standard Test Methods for Determining Average Grain Size

E1856-13(2021) Standard Guide for Evaluating Computerized Data Acquisition Systems Used to Acquire Data from Universal Testing Machines

E2789-10(2021) Standard Guide for Fretting Fatigue Testing

E915-21 Standard Practice for Verifying the Alignment of X-Ray Diffraction Instruments for Residual Stress Measurement

E633-21a Standard Guide for Use of Thermocouples in Elevated-Temperature Mechanical Testing

E1921-21a Standard Test Method for Determination of Reference Temperature, T0, for Ferritic Steels in the Transition Range

E2948-22 Standard Test Method for Conducting Rotating Bending Fatigue Tests of Solid Round Fine Wire

E1820-21 Standard Test Method for Measurement of Fracture Toughness

E18-22 Standard Test Methods for Rockwell Hardness of Metallic Materials

E3246-22 Standard Test Methods for Differential Indentation Depth Hardness of Metallic Materials

E381-22 Standard Method of Macroetch Testing Steel Bars, Billets, Blooms, and Forgings

E561-22 Standard Test Method for KR Curve Determination

E399-22 Standard Test Method for Linear-Elastic Plane-Strain Fracture Toughness of Metallic Materials

E1876-22 Standard Test Method for Dynamic Young's Modulus, Shear Modulus, and Poisson's Ratio by Impulse Excitation of Vibration

E8/E8M-22 Standard Test Methods for Tension Testing of Metallic Materials