ICS 59.080.70                          TXD 30

[Superseding IS 13162 (Part 5) : 1992]

NATIONAL FOREWORD

This Indian Standard which is identical with ISO 10319 : 2015 ‘Geosynthetics - Wide-width tensile test’ issued by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was adopted by the Bureau of Indian Standards on the recommendation of the Geosynthetics Sectional Committee and approval of the Textile Division Council.

This standard supersedes IS 13162 (Part 5) : 1992 ‘Geotextiles - Methods of test : Part 5 Determination of tensile properties using a wide width strip’. After the publication of this standard, IS 13162 (Part 5) : 1992 shall be treated as withdrawn.

The conditioning temperature of 20 ± 2°C as specified in International Standards is not suitable for tropical countries like India where the atmospheric temperature is normally much higher than 20°C. It is almost impossible to maintain this temperature specially during summer when the atmospheric temperature rises even up to 50°C. In view of the above, IS 6359 : 1971 ‘Method for conditioning of textiles’ which specifies a temperature of 27 ± 2°C for conditioning of the test specimens for the tropical countries like India shall be referred.

The text of ISO Standard has been approved as suitable for publication as an Indian Standard without deviations. Certain conventions are, however, not identical to those used in Indian Standards. Attention is particularly drawn to the following

a) Wherever the words ‘International Standard’ appear referring to this standard, they should be read as ‘Indian Standard’.

b) Comma (,) has been used as a decimal marker while in Indian Standards, the current practice is to use a point (.) as the decimal marker.