ASTM F3122-14(2022) - 1.4.2022
 
1. Scope

1.1?This standard serves as a guide to existing standards or variations of existing standards that may be applicable to determine specific mechanical properties of materials made with an additive manufacturing process.

1.2?As noted in many of these referenced standards, there are several factors that may influence the reported properties, including material, material anisotropy, method of material preparation, porosity, method of specimen preparation, testing environment, specimen alignment and gripping, testing speed, and testing temperature. These factors should be recorded, to the extent that they are known, according to Practice F2971 and the guidelines of the referenced standards.

1.3?The following standards are not referred to directly in the guide but also have information that may be useful in the testing of metal test specimens made via additive manufacturing: A370, A1058, B211, B348, B557, B565, B724, B769, E3, E6, E7, E290, E467, E468, E837, E915, E1049,E1823, E1942.

1.4?The values stated in SI units are to be regarded as standard. No other units of measurement are included in this standard.

1.5?This standard does not purport to address all of the safety concerns, if any, associated with its use. It is the responsibility of the user of this standard to establish appropriate safety, health, and environmental practices and determine the applicability of regulatory limitations prior to use.

1.6?This international standard was developed in accordance with internationally recognized principles on standardization established in the Decision on Principles for the Development of International Standards, Guides and Recommendations issued by the World Trade Organization Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) Committee.

 
2. Referenced Documents

E8/E8M-25

Standard Test Methods for Tension Testing of Metallic Materials

E9-19(2025)e1

Standard Test Methods of Compression Testing of Metallic Materials at Room Temperature (Includes all amendments and changes 4/29/2025).

E10-23

Standard Test Method for Brinell Hardness of Metallic Materials

E3-26

Standard Guide for Preparation of Metallographic Specimens

E18-25

Standard Test Methods for Rockwell Hardness of Metallic Materials

E21-20

Standard Test Methods for Elevated Temperature Tension Tests of Metallic Materials

E23-25

Standard Test Methods for Notched Bar Impact Testing of Metallic Materials

E837-25e1

Standard Test Method for Determining Residual Stresses by the Hole-Drilling Strain-Gage Method (Includes all amendments and changes 2/27/2026).

E915-21

Standard Practice for Verifying the Alignment of X-Ray Diffraction Instruments for Residual Stress Measurement

E1049-85(2023)

Standard Practices for Cycle Counting in Fatigue Analysis

E1221-23

Standard Test Method for Determining Plane-Strain Crack-Arrest Fracture Toughness, KIa, of Ferritic Steels

E1290-08

Standard Test Method for Crack-Tip Opening Displacement (CTOD) Fracture Toughness Measurement

E1304-97(2020)

Standard Test Method for Plane-Strain (Chevron-Notch) Fracture Toughness of Metallic Materials

E1450-24

Standard Test Method for Tension Testing of Structural Alloys in Liquid Helium

E1457-23e1

Standard Test Method for Measurement of Creep Crack Growth Times in Metals (Includes all amendments and changes 4/16/2024).

E1681-23e1

Standard Test Method for Determining Threshold Stress Intensity Factor for Environment-Assisted Cracking of Metallic Materials (Includes all amendments and changes 4/16/2024).

E1820-25de1

Standard Test Method for Measurement of Fracture Toughness (Includes all amendments and changes 4/15/2026).

E1823-24c

Standard Terminology Relating to Fatigue and Fracture Testing (Includes all amendments and changes 8/20/2024).

E1875-20a

Standard Test Method for Dynamic Young's Modulus, Shear Modulus, and Poisson's Ratio by Sonic Resonance (Includes all amendments and changes 3/23/2021).

E1876-22

Standard Test Method for Dynamic Young´s Modulus, Shear Modulus, and Poisson´s Ratio by Impulse Excitation of Vibration

E1942-25

Standard Guide for Evaluating Data Acquisition Systems Used in Cyclic Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics Testing

E2368-25

Standard Practice for Strain Controlled Thermomechanical Fatigue Testing

E2472-12(2026)

Standard Test Method for Determination of Resistance to Stable Crack Extension under Low-Constraint Conditions

E2714-13(2020)

Standard Test Method for Creep-Fatigue Testing

E2760-19e3

Standard Test Method for Creep-Fatigue Crack Growth Testing (Includes all amendments and changes 8/21/2024).

E2789-10(2021)

Standard Guide for Fretting Fatigue Testing

F2971-13(2021)

Standard Practice for Reporting Data for Test Specimens Prepared by Additive Manufacturing

F2792-12

Standard Terminology for Additive Manufacturing Technologies,

ISO/ASTM 52921

Terminology for Additive Manufacturing--Coordinate Systems and Test Methodologies

E466-21

Standard Practice for Conducting Force Controlled Constant Amplitude Axial Fatigue Tests of Metallic Materials

E467-21

Standard Practice for Verification of Constant Amplitude Dynamic Forces in an Axial Fatigue Testing System

E468-18

Standard Practice for Presentation of Constant Amplitude Fatigue Test Results for Metallic Materials

E606-04

Standard Practice for Strain-Controlled Fatigue Testing

E647-24

Standard Test Method for Measurement of Fatigue Crack Growth Rates

E740-03

Standard Practice for Fracture Testing with Surface-Crack Tension Specimens

E448-82(1997)e2

Standard Practice for Scleroscope Hardness Testing of Metallic Materials

E132-17(2025)e1

Standard Test Method for Poisson’s Ratio at Room Temperature (Includes all amendments and changes 12/11/2025).

E140-12B(2019)e1

Standard Hardness Conversion Tables for Metals Relationship Among Brinell Hardness, Vickers Hardness, Rockwell Hardness, Superficial Hardness, Knoop Hardness, Scleroscope Hardness, and Leeb Hardness (Includes all amendments and changes 5/7/2019).

E143-20

Standard Test Method for Shear Modulus at Room Temperature

E209-18

Standard Practice for Compression Tests of Metallic Materials at Elevated Temperatures with Conventional or Rapid Heating Rates and Strain Rates

E238-17a(2025)

Standard Test Method for Pin-Type Bearing Test of Metallic Materials (Includes all amendments and changes 12/3/2025).

E290-22

Standard Test Methods for Bend Testing of Material for Ductility

E292-24

Standard Test Methods for Conducting Time-for-Rupture Notch Tension Tests of Materials

E111-17(2025)e1

Standard Test Method for Young’s Modulus, Tangent Modulus, and Chord Modulus (Includes all amendments and changes 12/11/2025).

E384-22

Standard Test Method for Microindentation Hardness of Materials

E399-24

Standard Test Method for Linear-Elastic Plane-Strain Fracture Toughness of Metallic Materials

B645-21

Standard Practice for Linear-Elastic Plane-Strain Fracture Toughness Testing of Aluminum Alloys

B646-19

Standard Practice for Fracture Toughness Testing of Aluminum Alloys

B565-20

Standard Test Method for Shear Testing of Aluminum and Aluminum-Alloy Rivets and Cold-Heading Wire and Rods

B647-23

Standard Test Method for Indentation Hardness of Aluminum Alloys by Means of a Webster Hardness Gage

B648-23

Standard Test Method for Indentation Hardness of Aluminum Alloys by Means of a Barcol Impressor

B724-00

Standard Test Method for Indentation Hardness of Aluminum Alloys by Means of a Newage, Portable, Non-Caliper-Type Instrument

B769-25

Standard Test Method for Shear Testing of Aluminum Alloys

B909-21a(2026)

Standard Guide for Plane Strain Fracture Toughness Testing of Non-Stress Relieved Aluminum Products (Includes all amendments and changes 5/5/2026).

A370-24a

Standard Test Methods and Definitions for Mechanical Testing of Steel Products (Includes all amendments and changes 10/29/2024).

A1058-19

Standard Test Methods for Mechanical Testing of Steel Products´Metric

B211-12

Standard Specification for Aluminum and Aluminum-Alloy Rolled or Cold Finished Bar, Rod, and Wire

B348-13

Standard Specification for Titanium and Titanium Alloy Bars and Billets

B557-15(2023)

Standard Test Methods for Tension Testing Wrought and Cast Aluminum- and Magnesium-Alloy Products

E6-25

Standard Terminology Relating to Methods of Mechanical Testing

E7-25

Standard Terminology Relating to Metallography