If you have difficulty in submitting comments on draft standards you can use a commenting template and email it to admin.start@bsigroup.com. The commenting template can be found here.

We use cookies to give you the best experience and to help improve our website

Find out what cookies we use and how to disable them

ACE/61/-/6 - Mechanical Testing of Metallic Materials for Aerospace Purposes

Sector: Manufacturing

Categories: Nuts | Passenger and cabin equipment | Non-ferrous alloys | Aerospace construction materials. General | Aerospace coatings and related processes | Measurement. Optics and optical. General | Surface treatment | Steels | Testing. Environmental | Aerospace electric equipment and systems | Materials. Other | Rubber and plastics | Fasteners. Other | Ferrous alloys

Overview: Under the direction of ACE/61, to be responsible for all matters relating to the standardisation of mechanical test methods relating to metallic materials for aerospace purposes and for associated personnel certification, and formulating the United Kingdom input to European and international standards organisations where required.

Committee standards activity

In Progress (2)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
BS EN 6040 Aerospace series - Non-metallic materials - Test method - Analysis of thermoset systems by High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)

Categories: Rubber and plastics

Approval begins : 		Approval
ASD-STAN/D4 N592 NWP ballot - prEN 3873 (P2) Aerospace series — Test methods for metallic materials — Determination of fatigue crack growth rates using Corner-Cracked (CC) test pieces

Categories: Standardization. General rules | Engineering | Aircraft and space vehicle engineering | Materials. Other

Proposal begins : 2020-07-27 		Proposal
Published (14)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
BS EN 6072:2010 Aerospace series. Metallic materials. Test methods. Constant amplitude fatigue testing

Categories: Ferrous alloys

Published standard begins : 2010-09-03 		Published standard
BS EN 6041:2018 Aerospace series. Non-metallic materials. Test method. Analysis of non-metallic materials (uncured) by Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC)

Categories: Aerospace construction materials. General

Published standard begins : 2018-02-12 		Published standard
BS EN 6018:2017 Aerospace series. Test methods for metallic materials. Determination of density according to displacement method

Categories: Aerospace construction materials. General | Ferrous alloys | Non-ferrous alloys

Published standard begins : 2018-02-06 		Published standard
BS EN 4864:2020 Aerospace series. Environmental testing. High dynamic abrasion, mar, scratch and punch test in cabin interior

Categories: Aerospace construction materials. General | Passenger and cabin equipment

Published standard begins : 2020-12-21 		Published standard
BS EN 4861:2020 Aerospace series. Metrological assessment procedure for kinematic fields measured by digital image correlation

Categories: Measurement. Optics and optical. General | Aerospace construction materials. General | Aerospace electric equipment and systems

Published standard begins : 2020-12-15 		Published standard
BS EN 4526:2013 Aerospace series. Metallic materials. Test methods. Sharp edge-notch tensile testing for sheet and strip

Categories: Ferrous alloys | Non-ferrous alloys

Published standard begins : 2013-01-29 		Published standard
BS EN 3987:2009 Aerospace series. Test methods for metallic materials. Constant amplitude force-controlled high cycle fatigue testing

Categories: Aerospace construction materials. General | Ferrous alloys

Published standard begins : 2009-11-24 		Published standard
BS EN 3873:2010 Aerospace series. Test methods for metallic materials. Determination of fatigue crack growth rates using corner-cracked (CC) test pieces

Categories: Ferrous alloys | Non-ferrous alloys

Published standard begins : 2011-02-16 		Published standard
BS EN 3238:2010 Aerospace series. Metallic materials. Test method. Shear test for wires and rivets

Categories: Fasteners. Other

Published standard begins : 2010-11-09 		Published standard
BS EN 3094:2017 Aerospace series. Sealants. Test method. determination of the application time

Categories: Materials. Other

Published standard begins : 2017-11-08 		Published standard
Withdrawn (1)
Reference Standards description
Status ?

The standards development process is divided into chronological stages: Proposal; Drafting; Public comment; Comment resolution; Approval; Published standard.
BS EN 2002-2:2005 Aerospace series. Metallic materials. Test methods. Tensile testing at elevated temperature

Categories: Ferrous alloys | Non-ferrous alloys

Withdrawn begins : 2010-11-23 		Withdrawn