6.5 Overview: Destructive tests

Static tests

  • Lap shear test
  • Floating roller peel test
  • Compression shear test
  • Torsion shear test
  • Breakaway torque
  • Shear stress – shear strain test
  • Creep-rupture strength
  • Floating roller peel test
  • T-peel test
  • Bending peel test
  • Wedge test
  • Bead peel test

Cyclic tests

  • Alternating fatigue strength

Impact-shock

  • Testing under impact-shock loads

Destructive tests, if necessary after exposure to simulated environmental conditions, for example:

  • Outdoor weathering
  • Sweating test
  • Salt-spray test
  • Catap‌lasma test
  • Alternating climate test (e.g. PV-1200 test of VW)
  • VDA alternating test
  • Climate resistance test; after exposure to simulated environmental conditions