List of tests: polymeric and composite materials

• Mechanical tests
• Static tests
• Uniaxial tensile test (ASTM D3039)
• Uniaxial compression test (ASTM D695, ASTM D3410)
• Flexural test (ASTM D7264, ASTM D790, ASTM C393)
• Short beam (ASTM D2344)
• In plane Shear Response (ASTM D3518)
• In Plane Shear Strength (ASTM D3846)
• Pull off test for coating (ASTM D4541)
• Sandwich Flatwise Tensile Test (ASTM C297)
• Sandwich Shear test (ASTM C273)
• Tube shear for filling adhesives
• Punch shear test (ASTM D732)
• Drum peel test
• Peel test
• Dynamic tests
• Charpy Impact test (ASTM D6110, ISO 179)
• Izod impact test (ASTM D256)
• Tensile impact test (ISO 8256)
• Drop Test impact test (ASTM D5628, ISO 6603-1, ISO 6603-2)
• Mechanical static test on component
• Full scale static test (Fmax = 1000 ton)
• Structural joint characterization
• Mechanical joints
• Structural adesive
• Thermal analysis
• Heat Deflection Temperature
• Vicat Temperature
• Calorimetric analysis (DSC)
• Thermo-gravimetric analysis (TGA)
• Thermo-mechanical analysis (TMA)
• Parallel plates and cone/plate rheometer
• Physical tests
• Density measurement
• Melt Flow Index
• Water absorption
• Optical microscope observation
• Volatile content
• Weight fraction resin content of composite prepregs
• Volume fraction fibre content of composite laminates
• Tack
• Resin and prepreg Gel time
• Flow
• Vertical sag
• SEM (Scanning Electrical Microscope) analysis