19世纪80年代，为解决采购商与供货商在购销工业材料过程中产生的意见和分歧，有人提出建立技术委员会制度，由技术委员会组织各方面的代表参加技术座谈会，讨论解决有关材料规范、试验程序等方面的争议问题。

ASTM是美国最老、最大的非盈利性的标准学术团体之一。经过一个世纪的发展，ASTM现有33669个（个人和团体）会员，其中有22396个主要委员会会员在其各个委员会中担任技术专家工作。ASTM的技术委员会下共设有2004个技术分委员会。有105817个单位参加了ASTM标准的制定工作，主要任务是制定材料、产品、系统、和服务等领域的特性和性能标准，试验方法和程序标准，促进有关知识的发展和推广。

下面是金属疲劳与断裂标准一览：

B645-02    铝合金的平面应变断裂韧性试验    Standard Practice for Plane-Strain Fracture Toughness Testing of Aluminum Alloys

B646-04    铝合金断裂韧性试验    Standard Practice for Fracture Toughness Testing of Aluminum Alloys

E6-03    有关力学试验方法的标准术语    Standard Terminology Relating to Methods of Mechanical Testing

E23-02a    金属材料切口试棒的冲击试验方法    Standard Test Methods for Notched Bar Impact Testing of Metallic Materials

E139-00e1    金属材料蠕度、蠕变断裂和应力断裂试验    Standard Test Methods for Conducting Creep, Creep-Rupture, and Stress-Rupture Tests of Metallic Materials

E292-01    材料断裂时间的凹口张力试验    Standard Test Methods for Conducting Time-for-Rupture Notch Tension Tests of Materials

E328-02    材料和结构件的应力松弛试验    Standard Test Methods for Stress Relaxation Tests for Materials and Structures

E338-03    高强度薄板材料的锐切口张力试验方法    Standard Test Method of Sharp-Notch Tension Testing of High-Strength Sheet Materials

E340-00e1    金属和合金宏观腐蚀的测试方法    Standard Test Method for Macroetching Metals and Alloys

E399-05    金属材料水平变形断裂强度的测试方法    Standard Test Method for Plane-Strain Fracture Toughness of Metallic Materials

E436-03    铁素体钢的坠重破裂试验方法    Standard Test Method for Drop-Weight Tear Tests of Ferritic Steels

E466-96(2002)e1    金属材料上进行的恒定振幅轴向疲劳试验    Standard Practice for Conducting Force Controlled Constant Amplitude Axial Fatigue Tests of Metallic Materials

E467-05    轴向负载疲劳试验机中恒振幅动态负载检验    Standard Practice for Verification of Constant Amplitude Dynamic Forces in an Axial Fatigue Testing System

E468-90（2004）    显示金属材料定幅疲劳试验结果的方法    Standard Practice for Presentation of Constant Amplitude Fatigue Test Results for Metallic Materials

E561-05    R-曲线测定    Standard Practice for R-Curve Determination

E602-03    圆柱形试样的锐切口张力的试验方法    Standard Test Method for Sharp-Notch Tension Testing with Cylindrical Specimens

E604-83(2002)    金属材料的动态断裂试验方法    Standard Test Method for Dynamic Tear Testing of Metallic Materials

E606-92(2004)e1    应变控制环疲劳试验    Standard Practice for Strain-Controlled Fatigue Testing

E646-00    金属薄钢板材料的拉伸应变硬化指数(n值)的测试方法    Standard Test Method for Tensile Strain-Hardening Exponents (n-Values) of Metallic Sheet Materials

E647-05    疲劳裂缝增大率测量用测试方法    Standard Test Method for Measurement of Fatigue Crack Growth Rates

E739-91(2004)    线性或线性化应力寿命(S-N)和应变寿命(e-N)疲劳数据的统计分析    Standard Practice for Statistical Analysis of Linear or Linearized Stress-Life (S-N) and Strain-Life (ε-N) Fatigue Data

E740-03    用表面破裂张力试样做断裂试验    Standard Practice for Fracture Testing with Surface-Crack Tension Specimens

E812-91(1997)    高强度金属材料制慢弯预裂落摆冲击试样的破裂强度的测试方法    Standard Test Method for Crack Strength of Slow-Bend Precracked Charpy Specimens of High-Strength Metallic Materials

E813-91    断裂韧性JIC测定的标准试验方法    Standard Test Method For JIC,A Measure Of Fracture Toughness

E992  使用等效能量法确定钢的断裂韧度的惯例  Practice for Determination of Fracture Toughness of Steels Using Equivalent Energy Methodology

E1049-85(1997)    疲劳分析的周期计数    Standard Practices for Cycle Counting in Fatigue Analysis

E1152        Test Method for Determining J-R Curves3

E1169-02    耐久性试验的实施    Standard Guide for Conducting Ruggedness Tests

E1221-96(2002)    测定Kla铁素体钢的平面应变,断裂抑制,破裂韧性的试验方法    Standard Test Method for Determining Plane-Strain Crack-Arrest Fracture Toughness, KIa, of Ferritic Steels

E1290-02    测量裂缝尖端开口位移(CTOD)裂缝韧性的试验方法    Standard Test Method for Crack-Tip Opening Displacement (CTOD) Fracture Toughness Measurement

E1304-97(2002)    金属材料平面应变(V型槽口)断裂韧度的测试方法(代替SAE ARP 1704)    Standard Test Method for Plane-Strain (Chevron-Notch) Fracture Toughness of Metallic Materials

E1457-00    测量金属蠕变开裂增长速度的试验方法    Standard Test Method for Measurement of Creep Crack Growth Rates in Metals

E1681-03    恒定载荷下金属材料环境促使裂纹的阈应力强度系数测定标准试验方法    Standard Test Method for Determining a Threshold Stress Intensity Factor for Environment-Assisted Cracking of Metallic Materials

E1737-1996    断裂韧性J积分的表征    J-INTERGRAL CHARACTERIZATION OF FRACTURE TOUGHNESS

E1820-01    断裂韧性测定的标准试验方法    Standard Test Method for Measurement of Fracture Toughness

E1823-96(2002)    疲劳和裂纹试验相关的标准术语    Standard Terminology Relating to Fatigue and Fracture Testing

E1921-05    测定铁素体钢在转变范围内基准温度的标准试验方法    Standard Test Method for Determination of Reference Temperature, To’, for Ferritic Steels in the Transition Range

E1942-98(2004)    周期性疲劳和断裂力学试验中采用的数据采集系统的评定标准导则    Standard Guide for Evaluating Data Acquisition Systems Used in Cyclic Fatigue and Fracture Mechanics Testing

E2207-02    用薄壁管状样本进行张力控制轴向扭力疲劳试验惯例    Standard Practice for Strain-Controlled Axial-Torsional Fatigue Testing with Thin-Walled Tubular Specimens

E2368-04    张力受控的热机械疲劳测试惯例    Standard Practice for Strain Controlled