TC01 Update 2006

TC1 Subcommittee on Fracture Mechanics Testing Standards

In 2005 the TC1 subcommittee on Fracture Mechanics Test Standard did not meet. It’s still working on the ESIS Procedure P3 which represents an update of P2. It includes methods for testing specimens with low constraint, and these methods are being written in parallel with an ISO standard. That standard is in a voting procedure, and it may be that some national institutions suggest alterations. If this happens, then the subcommittee want to do the same changes in the ESIS method in order to avoid standards which are very similar, however, not identical.