1.1 This specification prescribes the method for conducting special tensile test for the determination of plastic strain ratio r of sheet metal intended for deep drawing applications.
1.2 It is a measure of plastic anisotropy and is related to the preferred crystallographic orientations within a polycrystalline metal.
IS 11999-1987 history
1989IS 11999-1987 Method for determination of plastic strain ratio of metal sheets