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| Abrasion & wear | Needle penetration |
| Accelerated ageing and colour stability | Operating forces |
| A'Court abrasion | Out of squareness |
| Adequacy of fill | Parallelism |
| Adhesion of minerals | Peel Resistance |
| Air flow | Perforation |
| Air leakage | Plasticiser content |
| Air permeability | Ponding test |
| Airtightness | Preliminary Impact |
| Apparent density | Rain Penetration |
| Appearance and finish | Recovery of polyester |
| Ash content | Refractive Index |
| Bending modulus | Resistance to chloride ion penetration |
| Bending strength | Resistance to cracking |
| Bond strength | Resistance to cyclic movement |
| Bowing under a thermal gradient | Resistance to dynamic indentation |
| Box loading with thermal cycling | Resistance to fatigue |
| Burst strength | Resistance to hard body impact |
| Capillarity | Resistance to horizontal point load |
| Charpy Impact | Resistance to impact |
| Chisel impact | Resistance to peeling of metal foil |
| Colour stability | Resistance to slippage |
| Compression bending strength | Resistance to slumping/sliding |
| Compression set | Resistance to soft and heavy body impact |
| Compressive creep | Resistance to static indentation |
| Compressive strength | Resistance to static loading |
| Concentrated loads | Resistance to UV radiation |
| Crack bridging | Ring stiffness |
| Creep ratio | Rodding resistance |
| Deformation | Salt fog exposure |
| Delamination strength | Security double casement |
| Density | Security |
| Density of powder | Security single casement |
| Depth of penetration | Shear resistance of joints |
| DHC | Shear test of thermal break |
| Diffusion | Short term water absorption (immersion) |
| Dimensional changes with temperature | Sieve analysis |
| Dimensional stability | Sieve grading |
| Dimensions | Slip resistance |
| Doorway Test | Soft body impact |
| Drop test | Softening point |
| Durability and operating forces | Solids content |
| Dynamic indentation | Squareness |
| Effect of heating | Static indentation |
| Elongation of sealant | Static loading |
| Emissivity | Straightness |
| Emissivity (Indicative D&S test) | Straightness of edges |
| Endurance | Streaming water |
| Eosin | Surface drying time |
| Fatigue cycling | Tack-free time |
| Fixing pull out | Tape tear test |
| Fixing pull through | Tearing resistance |
| Flatness | Tensile bending test |
| Flatness, bow and chamfer | Tensile bond strength |
| Flexural properties | Tensile bond strength of ceramic tiles |
| Foldability at low temperature | Tensile impact control |
| Freeze-thaw resistance | Tensile impact heat aged |
| Friction | Tensile impact after UV ageing |
| Friction and ease of movement | Tensile properties |
| Handle strength | Tensile splitting |
| Hard body impact | Tensile strength |
| Hardness | Tensile strength and elongation |
| Heat / Spray | Tensile strength of joints |
| Heat aging | Tensile strength of mesh |
| Heat resistance | Tensile strength perpendicular to faces |
| Heat reversion | Thermal conductivity |
| Heat-spray | Thermal cycling |
| Hot box test - U value | Thermal stress test |
| Hydrostatic head | Thickness |
| Ignition loss (Ash) | Thickness mineral wool |
| Impact | UltraViolet (UV) ageing |
| Infrared analysis | UV and Heat Age |
| Leakage at joints (Air pressure) | UV exposure |
| Length & Width | U-value |
| Letter box attack | Verification of visual aspects |
| Lightweight anchorage pull-down test | Vicat |
| Lightweight anchorage pull-out test | Viscosity |
| Liquid water permeability | Volatile content |
| Load bearing capacity | Water absorption |
| Long term loading | Water exposure |
| Long term water absorption (diffusion) | Water penetration |
| Long term water absorption (immersion) | Water resistance |
| Longitudinal bending | Watertightness |
| Low temperature flexibility | Weathertightness |
| Measurement of bond strength by pull-off | Weight loss |
| Mechanical loading | Wind resistance |
| Melt flow index | Wind suction |
| Nail tear | Woodgrain peel |
| Natural weathering for compressive strength | Water vapour permeability |