BIOMEDICAL
Manufacturers of sports and leisure equipment must ensure that the product can withstand the intended use and possible misuse. Certification of sports equipment by an independent third party provides consumers and retailers with the assurance that the product can do what its manufacturer claims, inspiring confidence in the brand.
| Static / Fatigue | Biomedical | ASTM F1264 | Standard Specification and Test Methods for Intramedullary Fixation Devices |
| Static / Fatigue | Biomedical | ASTM F1717 | Standard Test Methods for Spinal Implant Constructs in a Vertebrectomy Model |
| Static / Fatigue | Biomedical | ASTM F1798 | Standard Test Method for Evaluating the Static and Fatigue Properties of Interconnection Mechanisms and Subassemblies Used in Spinal Arthrodesis Implants |
| Static / Fatigue | Biomedical | ASTM F1800 | Standard Practice for Cyclic Fatigue Testing of Metal Tibial Tray Components of Total Knee Joint Replacements |
| Static / Fatigue | Biomedical | ASTM F2068 | Standard Specification for Femoral Prostheses—Metallic Implants |
| Static / Fatigue | Biomedical | ASTM F2077 | Test Methods For Intervertebral Body Fusion Devices |
| Static / Fatigue | Biomedical | ASTM F2193 | Standard Specifications and Test Methods for Components Used in the Surgical Fixation of the Spinal Skeletal System |
| Static / Fatigue | Biomedical | ASTM F2502 | Standard Specification and Test Methods for Absorbable Plates and Screws for Internal Fixation Implants |
| Static / Fatigue | Biomedical | ASTM F2580 | Standard Practice for Evaluation of Modular Connection of Proximally Fixed Femoral Hip Prosthesis |
| Static / Fatigue | Biomedical | ASTM F2706 | Standard Test Methods for Occipital-Cervical and Occipital-Cervical-Thoracic Spinal Implant Constructs in a Vertebrectomy Model |
| Static / Fatigue | Biomedical | ASTM F382 | Standard Specification and Test Method for Metallic Bone Plates |
| Static / Fatigue | Biomedical | ASTM F384 | Standard Specifications and Test Methods for Metallic Angled Orthopedic Fracture Fixation Devices |
| Static / Fatigue | Biomedical | ASTM F543 | Standard Specification and Test Methods for Metallic Medical Bone Screws |
| Static / Fatigue | Biomedical | EN 843-1 | Mechanical properties of monolithic ceramics at room temperature – Part 1: Determination of flexural strength |
| Static / Fatigue | Biomedical | ISO 11405 | Testing of adhesion to tooth structure |
| Static / Fatigue | Biomedical | ISO 12189-8 | Mechanical testing of implantable spinal devices – Fatigue test method for spinal implant assemblies using an anterior suppor |
| Static / Fatigue | Biomedical | ISO 14801 | Dentistry – Implants – Dynamic loading test for endosseous dental implants |
| Static / Fatigue | Biomedical | ISO 14879-1 | Total knee-joint prostheses Determination of endurance properties of knee tibial trays |
| Static / Fatigue | Biomedical | ISO 6872 | Dentistry – Ceramic materials |
| Static / Fatigue | Biomedical | ISO 7206 | Implants for surgery – Partial and total hip joint prostheses |
| Static / Fatigue | Biomedical | ISO 9585 | Implants for surgery – Determination of bending strength and stiffness of bone plates |
BIKE
| TEST | MATERIAL | NORM | DESCRIPTION |
| Static / Fatigue | Bike | EN 15194 | Electrically power assisted cycles – EPAC Bicycles – test methods |
| Static / Fatigue | Bike | ISO 4210-3 | Safety requirements for bicycles – Part 3: Common test methods |
| Static / Fatigue | Bike | ISO 4210-4 | Safety requirements for bicycles – Part 4: Braking test methods |
| Static / Fatigue | Bike | ISO 4210-5 | Safety requirements for bicycles – Part 5: Steering test methods |
| Static / Fatigue | Bike | ISO 4210-6 | Safety requirements for bicycles – Part 6: Frame and fork test methods |
| Static / Fatigue | Bike | ISO 4210-7 | Safety requirements for bicycles – Part 7: Wheels and rims test methods |
| Static / Fatigue | Bike | ISO 4210-8 | Safety requirements for bicycles – Part 8: Pedal and drive system test methods |
| Static / Fatigue | Bike | ISO 4210-9 | Safety requirements for bicycles – Part 9: Saddles and seat-post test methods |
| TEST | MATERIAL | NORM | DESCRIPTION |
| Impatto | Bici | JIS D 9431 | Impact test on saddle for bicycle |
| TEST | MATERIAL | NORM | DESCRIPTION |
| Various | Bici | UCI standards | Bicycle test and validation |
METAL
| PROOF | MATERIAL | NORM | DESCRIPTION |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM A370 | Test Methods and Definitions for Mechanical Testing of Steel Products |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E3 | Guide for Preparation of Metallographic Specimens |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E4 | Practices for Force Verification of Testing Machines |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E8/E8M | Test Methods for Tension Testing of Metallic Materials |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E9 | Test Methods of Compression Testing of Metallic Materials at Room Temperature |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E83 | Practice for Verification and Classification of Extensometer Systems |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E111 | Test Method for Young’s Modulus, Tangent Modulus,and Chord Modulus |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E112 | Test Methods for Determining Average Grain Size |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E132 | Test Method for Poisson’s Ratio at Room Temperature |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E177 | Practice for Use of the Terms Precision and Bias in ASTM Test Methods |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E209 | Practice for Compression Tests of Metallic Materials at Elevated Temperatures with Conventional or Rapid Heating Rates and Strain Rates |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E337 | Test Method for Measuring Humidity with a Psychrometer (the Measurement of Wet- and Dry-Bulb Temperatures) |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E384 | Test Method for Microindentation Hardness of Materials |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E399 | Test Method for Linear-Elastic Plane-Strain Fracture Toughness of Metallic Materials |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E466 | Practice for Conducting Force Controlled Constant Amplitude Axial Fatigue Tests of Metallic Materials |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E468 | Practice for Verification of Constant Amplitude Dynamic Forces in an Axial Fatigue Testing System |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E691 | Practice for Presentation of Constant Amplitude Fatigue Test Results for Metallic Materials |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E739 | Practice for Conducting an Interlaboratory Study to Determine the Precision of a Test Method |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E1012 | Practice for Statistical Analysis of Linear or Linearized Stress-Life (S-N) and Strain-Life (ε-N) Fatigue Data |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E1049 | Practice for Verification of Testing Frame and Specimen Alignment Under Tensile and Compressive Axial Force Application |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E1049 | Practices for Cycle Counting in Fatigue Analysis |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E1245 | Practice for Determining the Inclusion or Second-Phase Constituent Content of Metals by Automatic Image Analysis |
| Fatigue tests | Metal | ASTM E1823 | Terminology Relating to Fatigue and Fracture Testing |
| PROOF | MATERIAL | NORM | DESCRIPTION |
| Rubber testing | Rubber | ASTM D3574 | Flexible Cellular Materials—Slab, Bonded, and Molded Urethane Foams |
| Biaxial planar | Metal | ISO 16842 | Biaxial tensile testing method using a cruciform test piece |
| Creep | Metal | ASTM E139 | Conducting Creep, Creep-Rupture, and Stress-Rupture Tests of Metallic Materials |
| Creep | Metal | ISO 204 | Uniaxial creep testing in tension |
| Fracture mechanics | Metal | ASTM E1457 | Measurement of Creep Crack Growth Times in Metals |
| Fracture mechanics | Metal | ASTM E647 | Measurement of Fatigue Crack Growth Rates |
| Fracture mechanics | Metal | ISO 11782-2 | Corrosion of metals and alloys-fatigue testing: Crack propagation test using pre-cracked specimens |
| Fracture mechanics | Metal | ISO 12108 | Metallic materials – Fatigue testing – Fatigue crack growth method |
| Fracture mechanics | Metal | ASTM E647 | Standard Test Method for Measurement of Fatigue Crack Growth Rates |
| Fracture mechanics | Metal | ISO 7539-6 | Corrosion of metals and alloys – Stress corrosion testing |
| Fracture mechanics | Metal | ASTM E399 | Standard Test Method for Linear-Elastic Plane-Strain Fracture Toughness of Metallic Materials |
| Fracture mechanics | Metal | ASTM E1820-11 | Standard Test Method for Measurement of Fracture Toughness (metals) |
| PROOF | MATERIAL | NORM | DESCRIPTION |
| Impact | Metal | ASTM E208 SEP 1325 |
Conducting Drop-Weight Test to Determine Nil-Ductility Transition Temperature of Ferritic Steels |
| Impact | Metal | ASTM E23 | Notched Bar Impact Testing of Metallic Materials |
| Impact | Metal | ASTM E436 | Drop-Weight Tear Tests of Ferritic Steels |
| Impact | Metal | ISO 10274 | Drop weight tear test |
PLASTIC
| TEST | MATERIAL | NORM | DESCRIPTION |
| Impact | Plastic | ASTM D1709 | Impact Resistance of Plastic Film by the Free-Falling Dart Method |
| Impact | Plastic | ASTM D3763 | High Speed Puncture Properties of Plastics Using Load and Displacement Sensors |
| Impact | Plastic | ASTM D5420 | Impact Resistance of Flat, Rigid Plastic Specimen by Means of a Striker Impacted by a Falling Weight (Gardner Impact) |
| Impact | Plastic | ISO 13802 | Charpy, Izod and tensile impact-testing |
| Impact | Plastic | ISO 148 | Charpy impact test |
| Impact | Plastic | ISO 179-1 ISO 179-2 |
Determination of Charpy impact properties |
| Impact | Plastic | ISO 6603-1 ISO 6603-2 |
Determination of puncture impact behaviour of rigid plastics |
| Impact | Plastic | ISO 7765-1 ISO 7765-2 BS 2782-3 |
Plastics film and sheeting – Determination of impact resistance by the free-falling dart method |
| TEST | MATERIAL | NORM | DESCRIPTION |
| Static test | Plastic | ASTM D638 | Tensile Properties of Plastics |
| Static test | Plastic | ISO 527-1 ISO 527-2 |
Plastics—Determination of tensile properties |
COMPOSITE
| PROOF | MATERIAL | NORM | DESCRIPTION |
| Impact | Composite | EN 6038 | Determination of the compression strength after impact (CAI test) |
| Impact | Composite | ISO 18352 | Determination of compression-after impact properties at a specified impact energy level (CAI test) |
| Impact | Compostite | ASTM D7136/D7136M | Measuring the Damage Resistance of a Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Matrix Composite to a Drop-Weight Impact Event (Compression After Impact – CAI ) |
RUBBER
| TEST | MATERIAL | NORM | DESCRIPTION |
| Static tests | Rubber | ISO 2439 | Determination of hardness (indentation technique) |
| Static tests | Rubber | ISO 3386 | Determination of stress-strain characteristics in compression |
| TEST | MATERIAL | NORM | DESCRIPTION |
| Rubber testing | Rubber | ASTM D3574 | Flexible Cellular Materials—Slab, Bonded, and Molded Urethane Foams |
