1.1 This International Standard specifies a method for determining the Izod impact strength of plastics under defined conditions. A number of different types of specimen and test configurations are defined. Different test parameters are specified according to the type of material, the type of test specimen and the type of notch.
1.2 The method is used to investigate the behaviour of specified types of specimen under the impact conditions defined and for estimating the brittleness or toughness of specimens within the limitations inherent in the test conditions.
1.3 The method is suitable for use with the following range of materials:
— rigid thermoplastic moulding and extrusion materials, including filled and reinforced compounds in addition to unfilled types; rigid thermoplastics sheets;
— rigid thermosetting moulding materials, including filled and reinforced compounds; rigid thermosetting sheets, including laminates;
— fibre-reinforced thermosetting and thermoplastic composites incorporating unidirectional or non-unidirectional reinforcements such as mat, woven fabrics, woven rovings, chopped strands, combination and hybrid reinforcements, rovings and milled fibres and sheet made from pre-impregnated materials (prepregs);
— thermotropic liquid-crystal polymers.
1.4 The method is not normally suitable for use with rigid cellular materials and sandwich structures containing cellular material. Also, notched specimens are not normally used for long-fibre-reinforced composites or thermotropic liquid-crystal polymers.
1.5 The method is suited to the use of specimens which may be either moulded to the chosen dimensions, machined from the central portion of a standard multipurpose test specimen (see ISO 3167) or machined from finished or semifinished products such as mouldings, laminates and extruded or cast sheet.
1.6 The method specifies preferred dimensions for the test specimen. Tests which are carried out on specimens of different dimensions or with different notches, or specimens which are prepared under different conditions, may produce results which are not comparable. Other factors, such as the energy capacity of the apparatus, its impact velocity and the conditioning of the specimens can also influence the results. Consequently, when comparative data are required, these factors must be carefully controlled and recorded.
1.7 The method should not be used as a source of data for design calculations. Information on the typical behaviour of a material can be obtained, however, by testing at different temperatures, by varying the notch radius and/or the thickness and by testing specimens prepared under different conditions.
ISO 180:2000 Referenced Document
ISO 10724-1:1998 Plastics - Injection moulding of test specimens of thermosetting powder moulding compounds (PMCs) - Part 1: General principles and moulding of multipurpose test specimens
ISO 1268:1974 Plastics; Preparation of glass fibre reinforced, resin bonded, low-pressure laminated plates or panels for test purposes
ISO 13802:1999 Plastics - Verification of pendulum impact-testing machines - Charpy, Izod and tensile impact-testing
ISO 2602:1980 Statistical interpretation of test results; estimation of the mean; confidence interval
ISO 2818:1994 Plastics - Preparation of test specimens by machining
ISO 291:1997 Plastics - Standard atmospheres for conditioning and testing
ISO 293:1986 Plastics; Compression moulding test specimens of thermoplastic materials
ISO 294-1:1996 Plastics - Injection moulding of test specimens of thermoplastic materials - Part 1: General principles, and moulding of multipurpose and bar test specimens
ISO 295:1991 Plastics; compression moulding of test specimens of thermosetting materials
ISO 3167 Plastics - Multipurpose test specimens*, 2014-08-01 Update
ISO 180:2000 history
2023ISO 180:2023 Plastics. Determination of Izod impact strength
2019ISO 180:2019 Thermal insulating products for building equipment and industrial installations — Determination of maximum service temperature for preformed pipe insulation
2013ISO 180:2000/Amd 2:2013 Plastics - Determination of Izod impact strength - Amendment 2: Precision data