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EUROPEAN STANDARD EN ISO 10365

NORME EUROPÉENNE
EUROPÄISCHE NORM February 2022

ICS 83.180 Supersedes EN ISO 10365:1995

English Version

Adhesives - Designation of main failure patterns (ISO

10365:2022)
Adhésifs - Désignation des principaux faciès de rupture Klebstoffe - Bezeichnung der wichtigsten Bruchbilder
(ISO 10365:2022) (ISO 10365:2022)

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European foreword....................................................................................................................................................... 3

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European foreword

This document (EN ISO 10365:2022) has been prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 61 "Plastics"
in collaboration with Technical Committee CEN/TC 193 “Adhesives” the secretariat of which is held by
UNE.

This European Standard shall be given the status of a national standard, either by publication of an
identical text or by endorsement, at the latest by August 2022, and conflicting national standards shall
be withdrawn at the latest by August 2022.

Attention is drawn to the possibility that some of the elements of this document may be the subject of
patent rights. CEN shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights.

This document supersedes EN ISO 10365:1995.

Any feedback and questions on this document should be directed to the users’ national standards
body/national committee. A complete listing of these bodies can be found on the CEN website.

According to the CEN-CENELEC Internal Regulations, the national standards organizations of the
following countries are bound to implement this European Standard: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland,
Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Republic of
North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the
United Kingdom.

Endorsement notice

The text of ISO 10365:2022 has been approved by CEN as EN ISO 10365:2022 without any modification.

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STANDARD 10365

Second edition
2022-01

Adhesives — Designation of main

failure patterns
Adhésifs — Désignation des principaux faciès de rupture

Reference number
ISO 10365:2022(E)

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Foreword......................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... iv
1 Scope.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1
2 Normative references...................................................................................................................................................................................... 1
3 Terms and definitions..................................................................................................................................................................................... 1
4 Application.................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 1

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Foreword
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This document was prepared by Technical Committee ISO/TC 61, Plastics, Subcommittee SC 11, Products,
in collaboration with the European Committee for Standardization (CEN) Technical Committee CEN/
TC 193, Adhesives, in accordance with the Agreement on technical cooperation between ISO and CEN
(Vienna Agreement).
This second edition cancels and replaces the first edition (ISO 10365:1992), which has been technically
revised.
The main changes compared to the previous edition are as follows:
— failure with stress whitening of adhesive (SWCF) has been added;
— debonding due to bondline corrosion (COR) has been added;
Any feedback or questions on this document should be directed to the user’s national standards body. A
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Adhesives — Designation of main failure patterns

1 Scope
This document specifies the designations for the main types of failure pattern of bonded assemblies
and illustrates, through diagrams, their respective appearances.
This document applies to all mechanical tests performed on a bonded assembly, regardless of the nature
of the adherends and adhesive which make up the assembly.

2 Normative references
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.
ISO 472, Plastics — Vocabulary

3 Terms and definitions

For the purposes of this document, the terms and definitions given in ISO 472 and the following apply.
ISO and IEC maintain terminology databases for use in standardization at the following addresses:
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3.1
assembly
<for adhesives> group of materials or parts, including adhesive, which have been placed together for
bonding or which have been bonded together
3.2
adhesion failure
adhesive failure
rupture of an adhesive bond in which the separation appears visually to be at the adhesive/adherend
interface
3.3
cohesion failure
cohesive failure
rupture of a bonded assembly in which the separation appears visually to be in the adhesive or the
adherend

4 Application
The designation of the failure patterns is provided to classify failures in order to understand better
the result of any mechanical test of adhesion on a bonded assembly, which is usually expressed by
quantitative measured values.
The failure patterns are designated in accordance with the illustrations in Table 1.

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Table 1 — Designation of failure patterns

Failure patterns Designation

SF
Failure of one or both adherends (Substrate failure)

CSF
Adherend
Failure of an adherend (Cohesive substrate failure)

DF
Failure through lamination (Delamination failure)
Type of cohesion failure
CF
Cohesion failure

SCF
Special cohesion
failure

SWCF
Failure with stress whitening of adhesive

Adhesive

AF

Adhesion failure

ACFP

Adhesion and cohesion failure with peel

Corrosion at inter-
COR
face
Debonding due to bondline corrosion

If more than one type of failure occurs, an approximate percentage for each type of failure pattern shall
be given after each designation (see Figure 1).
If a delamination failure occurs (i.e. the coating tears off the adherend), the designation (DF) shall be
followed by the nature of the coating.
NOTE 1 Types of coating include primer, varnish, paint, phosphatization, etc.

When an oscillating failure of two patterns occurs, it is indicated by adding “OSC” after the description
of the failure patterns:
AF (50 % ) + CF (50 % ) , OSC

NOTE 2 The slip-stick mode of oscillating failure is typical of a system constituted by an elastic adherend and
an adhesive which can undergo a transition between different failure mechanisms (cohesion and adhesion failure
or ductile and brittle-cohesion failure), elastic energy being periodically stored and released by the adherend.

Figure 2 illustrates a typical pattern of oscillating cohesion and adhesion failure.

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Examination of the surface using a suitable instrument may enable the different types of failure pattern
to be better distinguished.

Figure 1 — Example of a “mixed failure”

Figure 2 — Example of “oscillating rupture”

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