ABSTRACT
Draft: Materials and Structures, Vol. 23, No. 133, January –February 1990. Final: Endorsed May 1993.
This standard specifies a method for tension testing of metallic structural materials, for determining stressstrain relations up to the maximum load under monotonic and uniaxial tensile loading at ambient temperature. The stress -strain relations shall be expressed by some standardized mathematical equations, in which the material constants shall be evaluated in accordance with the appendices in this standard. Note 1. This standard also covers a determination of the stress -strain relation, between the maximum load and the rupture load of the test specimen. The result, however, should be regarded as a reference value, until the establishment of a correction method for the local stress and strain disturbance which occurs at the necking part of the test specimen.
