An international standards organization called ASTM International, originally known as the American Society for Testing and Materials, creates and disseminates voluntary consensus technical standards for a variety of materials, goods, systems, and services. There are currently 12,575 ASTM voluntary consensus standards in use worldwide. It is not the responsibility of ASTM International to demand or enforce adherence to its standards. The standards, however, might become obligatory if they are used in a contract or by a company, government, or other external entity.

The measurement of the amount of bending that happens when tensile and compressive pressures are applied to notched and unnotched test specimens during regular testing in the elastic range is covered by ASTM E1012. These techniques are particularly relevant to the typical tension, compression, creep, and uniaxial fatigue testing force levels. The main goal of this procedure is to measure the amount of bending that a test specimen is subjected to during routine tests by the regular parts that make up a materials testing machine.

Both metallic and nonmetallic testing can be done using this method.

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