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Two kinds of documents are produced by ESIS Technical Committees with the following designatory system: ESIS P2-92 or ESIS P4-92D, where:

   1. P means "Procedure", and 2 and 4 are the current numbers, while 92 is the year of issue.
   2. D following the year (eg: 92D) means "draft", ie: not yet approved, while
   3. D prior to the year (eg: D1-92) means "Document" other than test methods. 

All ESIS documents are free for ESIS members (see membership). Alternatively they can be purchased from:
Prof. Stefano Beretta, 
Politecnico di Milano, Dipartimento di Meccanica
Via La Masa 34
20156 Milano
Tel: +39-02-23998246
fax: +39-02-23998202
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D2-99 is free, all other documents can be purchased for Euro 10; including postage and handling.

PROCEDURES
Although ESIS is not a standardisation body the procedures are similar to documents on "STANDARDS" and represent technical consensus within ESIS. They serve as a basis for national and international standards.

P1-92

ESIS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR DETERMINING THE FRACTURE RESISTANCE OF DUCTILE MATERIALS.
The procedure for determinating d-R and J-R-curves; also initiation values from the R-curves.
Responsible body: TC1 Subcommittee on Fracture Mechanics Testing Standards.

P2-92

ESIS PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINING THE FRACTURE BEHAVIOUR OF MATERIALS.
This is the first unified fracture mechanics test method. It has had influence on British Standards and on the coming ISO unified test method and covers the whole range of fracture behaviour from the linear elastic KIc regime to the fully plastic R-curve regime and thus incorporates P1-92.
Responsible body: TC1 Subcommittee on Fracture Mechanics Testing Standards.

P3-03D

DRAFT UNIFIED PROCEDURE FOR DETERMINING THE FRACTURE BEHAVIOUR OF MATERIAL.
Responsible body: TC1 Subcommittee on Fracture Mechanics Testing Standards.

P4-92D

ESIS RECOMMENDATIONS FOR STRESS CORROSION TESTING USING PRE-CRACKED SPECIMENS.
This draft procedure has been validated by an EU project and is now being written in final form.
Responsible body: TC10 Committee on Environmental-Assisted Cracking.

P5-00

DETERMINATION OF FRACTURE TOUGHNESS OF CERAMICS USING THE SEVNB METHOD (preliminary title).
This method is being prepared jointly by ESIS TC6 and VAMAS TWA3.
Responsible body: TC6 Committee on Ceramics.

P6-98

ESIS PROCEDURE TO MEASURE AND CALCULATE MATERIAL PARAMETERS FOR THE LOCAL APPROACH TO FRACTURE USING NOTCHED TENSILE SPECIMENS.
Responsible body: TC8 Committee on Numerical Methods.

P7-00

ESIS PROCEDURE FOR DYNAMIC TENSILE TESTS
Responsible body: TC5 Subcommittee on Dynamic Testing at Intermediate Strain rates.

P8-99D

ESIS DRAFT CODE OF PRACTICE FOR THE DETERMINATION AND INTERPRETATION OF CYCLIC STRESS-STRAIN DATA.
Responsible body: TC11 Committee on High Temperature Mechanical Testing.

P9-02D

GUIDANCE ON LOCAL APPROACH OF RUPTURE OF METALLIC MATERIALS.

P10-02

A CODE OF PRACTICE FOR CONDUCTING NOTCHED BAR CREEP RUPTURE TESTS AND INTERPRETING THE DATA.

P11-03

TECHNICAL RECOMMANDATIONS FOR THE EXTREME VALUE ANALYSIS OF DATA ON LARGE NONMETALLIC INCLUSIONS
Responsible body: TC20 Committee on Inclusions.


DOCUMENTS
In this category documents other than procedures are published as guidelines; each Committee planning to release a document should contact Prof. S. Beretta who will then provide the correct designation.

D1-92

FRACTURE CONTROL GUIDELINES FOR STRESS CORROSION CRACKING OF HIGH STRENGTH ALLOYS.
A fracture control plan document for structures made of high strength metallic materials.
Responsible body: TC10 Committee on Environmental Assisted Cracking.

D2-99

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS OF CERAMICS USING THE SEVNB METHOD; ROUND ROBIN, TEST PROGRAMME.
The ESIS TC6 and VAMAS TWA3 developed a test method and conducted a round robin for its validation. D2-99 presents a detailed documentation of this activity. The final form of the test method will appear as P5-00.


Finally, attention is drawn to:
GUIDELINES FOR TERMINOLOGY AND NOMENCLATURE IN THE FIELD OF STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY, D1-96.
Author: D François, Fatigue & Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures, Vol 19 (12), 1515-1533.S