The purpose of the guideline is to provide defintions of terms, establish unified terms and definitions for types of failure on products made from metallic and polymeric materials, allow a systematic procedure of failure analysis; ensure the comparability of the results obtained by different analytical laboratories; emphasise the need for documentation.
VDI 3822-2011 Referenced Document
DIN EN ISO 9001:2008 Quality management systems - Requirements (ISO 9001:2008); Trilingual version EN ISO 9001:2008
DIN EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005 General requirements for the competence of testing and calibration laboratories (ISO/IEC 17025:2005); German and English version EN ISO/IEC 17025:2005
VDI 1000-2010 VDI Guideline Work - Principles and procedures