… hardness, strength, compressibility, elasticity or other mechanical properties of materials (for example, metals, …
Explanatory notes
… laboratories for testing manufactured articles (usually carefully selected or standard specimens). They may also be … Some “universal” types (e.g., for metal testing) can be used for hardness, tensile, bending, etc., tests by … for : (A) Tensile testing on test‑pieces, bars, wire, cables, springs, etc. Tensile tests are used to ascertain …