1.1   This European Standard specifies a method of determining certain tensile properties of textile glass reinforced plastics. The method specified is not necessarily applicable to materials of very high tensile strength, for example unidirectional reinforced materials1). The method is applicable to reinforced thermosetting resins and also to reinforced thermoplastics.

Injection-moulded test specimens made from reinforced thermoplastics are subject to fibre orientation, and may give values that are untypically high; however, they may be used if other methods of specimen preparation are impracticable.