Estimation of uncertainty with the modulus of elasticity measured by means of tensile test for BSCCO tapes

The international round robin test (RRT) was conducted in order to establish the international standard for the tensile test method for BSCCO-2223 tape shaped wires. The measurands of mechanical properties were statistically analyzed to estimate their standard uncertainties and their correlation among laboratories. Consequently the large variance was observed with the modulus of elasticity determined from the initial loading curve. The reason has been examined by estimating type B uncertainties causing at every step of the experimental procedure. With respect to the modulus of elasticity, the grand intra-lab average of relative standard uncertainty (RSU) obtained from the RRT coincided roughly with that derived by means of type B evaluation. Thus it is emphasized that the type B evaluation is very effective tool for expecting the uncertainties of the observations like the modulus of elasticity. On the other hand, the grand over-all RSU was larger than the grand intra-lab one. The combined standard uncertainties were calculated by changing the strain rate, but kept other parameters constant. In order to suppress the influence from the strain rate to the variance, it has been recommended that the strain rate shall be regulated less than 2 × 10−4 1/s in the tensile test method.