Factors That Affect the Precision of Mechanical Tests

STP Published: 1989

STP1025-EB

Factors That Affect the Precision of Mechanical Tests

Editor(s): Ralph Papirno, H. Carl Weiss

Seventeen papers describe investigations where the precision of test procedures were either examined or enhanced. Topics include hardness testing, fatigue and fracture testing, and specimen alignment and gripping problems.

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Results of an ASTM E-4 Round-Robin on the Precision and Bias of Measurements of Microindentation Hardness Impressions

GF Vander Voort

An Alternative Method for Measuring Microindentations

AR Fee

Factors That Affect the Accuracy of Indentation Hardness Tests

EL Tobolski

Gage Repeatability and Reproducibility Studies of Rockwell Scale Hardness Testers

JJ Cieplak, EL Tobolski, DM Williams

Measurement of Rapid-Loading Fracture Toughness

M Satoh, T Funada, Y Urabe, K Hojo

Automated Fatigue Crack Growth Monitoring: Comparison of Different Crack-Following Techniques

N Ranganathan, G Guilbon, K Jendoubi, A Nadeau, J Petit

Resolution Requirements for Automated Single Specimen Testing

CA Hautamaki

Accuracy of Multiaxial Fatigue Testing with Thin-Walled Tubular Specimens

DF Lefebvre, H Ameziane-Hassani, KW Neale

Requirements for the Permitted Size of the Alignment Errors of Load Frames for Fatigue Testing and a Proposal for a Relevant Measuring Method

RJH Baten, HJ d'Haen, FA Jacobs, MK Muller, PE van Riesen, GL Tjoa

Checking and Improvement of the Alignment of Flat Specimen Gripping Devices

R Fischer, E Haibach

Development of an Instrumented Device to Measure Fixture-induced Bending in Pin-loaded Specimen Trains

DW Scavone

End Constraint and Alignment Effects in Three- and Four-Point Reverse Bending Tests

WD Bowman

Influence of Machine Type and Strain Rate Interaction in Tension Testing

TGF Gray, J Sharp

Accuracy of High-Temperature, Constant Rate of Strain Flow Curves

JG Lenard, AN Karagiozis

Simple Stress Sensor: Utilizing of Stretcher Strains

K Taniuchi

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Weight Loss Technique for Measurement of Wear of Polymeric Orthopedic Implants

JL Lower, HC Price

A Survey of the Experimental Determination of Precision in Materials Research

HT McClelland, ML Birkland

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Developed by Committee: E08

Pages: 250

DOI: 10.1520/STP1025-EB

ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-5086-7

ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-1251-3