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This International Standard specifies a method for the determination of interlaminar shear strength of continuous-fibre-reinforced ceramic composites at ambient temperature, by the compression of a doublenotched test piece or by the Iosipescu test. Methods for test piece fabrication, testing modes and rates (load rate or displacement rate), data collection, and reporting procedures are addressed. This International Standard applies primarily to advanced ceramic or glass-matrix composites with continuousfibre reinforcement having uni-directional (1-D) or bi-directional (2-D) fibre architecture. This test method does not address composites with (3-D) fibre architecture or discontinuous-fibre-reinforced, whisker-reinforced or particulate-reinforced ceramics.