DS CWA 16200:2010

A Guide to the Development and Use of Standards Compliant Data Formats for Engineering Materials Test Data

Scope

The present document gives guidance on the development of computer readable data formats that comply with technical standards for mechanical testing. This guidance extends to the interpretation of the written testing procedure and extraction of the relevant information. For this, many considerations will need to be taken into account, including the structure implicit to the written document itself and the applicability of existing specifications, such as ISO 10303 45, ISO 10303 235, MatML, JRC MatDB, and NMC MatDB.

The present document focuses on the development of data formats for a specific technical standard, namely EN ISO 6892-1:2009 Metallic materials — Tensile testing — Part 1: Method of test at ambient temperature, but is intended to deliver guidance on the general case translating any mechanical Testing Standards and associated Calibration Standards to a computer-readable format.

NOTE 1 In the scope of the present document, computer readable format is intended to mean a format that makes possible computer processing of the information generated in accordance with the technical standard.

The scope of the work is concerned with a subset of the supply chain engineering data integration problem, namely the integration of test data, including derived properties data, but does not extend to design data.

NOTE 2 The present document does not fully address the integration of material test data with other parts of the supply chain. Instead, its focus has been on the development of a robust approach to material test data with broad industry support, which is based on existing standard for material testing and on existing standards for industrial data. The integration of material test data with the broader supply chain is of relevance to many different Application Protocols within ISO 10303, and it is intended that this integration will be addressed by future work.