(93)
Council Directive 96/49/EC of 23 July 1996 on the approximation of the laws of the Member States with regard to the transport of dangerous goods by rail · European Union
(93) In the case of sheet metal the axis of the tensile test -piece shall be at right angles to the direction of rolling. The permanent elongation at fracture shall be measured on test -pieces of circular cross - section in which the gauge length l is equal to five times the diameter d (l = 5d); if test-pieces of rectangular section are used, the gauge length shall be calculated by the formula
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