Item Designation Test method

  1.

Tensile testing at ambient temperature

SR EN ISO 6892-1; ASTM E8M

  2.

Vickers hardness test

SR EN ISO 6507-1; ASTM E384

  3.

 Rockwell hardness test (HRB, HRC)

SR EN ISO 6508-1; ASTM E18

  4.

 Bend test

SR ISO 7438; ASTM 290

  5.

Erichsen cupping test

SR EN ISO 20482

  6.

Earing test

ISO 11531

  7.

Determination of plastic strain ratio

ISO 10113

  8.

Determination of tensile strain hardening exponent

ISO 10275

  9.

Micrographic determination of the ferritic or austenitic grain size of steels

SR ISO 643; ASTM E112

  10.

Determination of resistance to intergranullar corrosion of stainless steels

SR EN ISO 3651-1,2; ASTM A262; ASTM A763

  11.

Determination of nonmetallic inclusion content of steel

ASTM E45; EN10247; DIN 50602; ISO 4967

  12.

Optical emission spectrometric analysis of stainless steel (OES)

ASTM E1086, STAS 11464

  13.

Assessment of surface roughness

SR EN ISO 4288