<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?><?Xpress productLine="ncc-clause" ?><clause id="_f6b74686-46fc-4839-b7b8-083ab75a9116" outputclass="ncc-clause"><meta><facet building="Class 1a"/><facet building="Class 1b"/><facet building="Class 10a"/><facet building="Class 10b"/><facet building="Class 10c"/></meta><sptc>S6C9</sptc><title id="_c19acf43-8f43-450c-8edf-072d671d11e8">Testing of specimens</title><archive-num>2019: Spec C1.8: 4.3</archive-num><subclause id="_01bffd05-16a7-4341-a56d-2d0802cb0835" outputclass="subclause"><title id="_c7c65aae-7455-4e85-be6a-02588b58e418">SubClause</title><num>1</num><p>If a laboratory specimen is tested, the specimen must span only in the direction corresponding to the height of the wall and testing must be done in accordance with either (a) or (b) below:</p><ol outputclass="alpha"><li id="_e10f43bd-5475-4ad0-9fc4-bdcbad5d536e">The test specimen—<ol><li>height (or length, if the specimen is tested horizontally) must be identical with the height between supports in the actual construction; and</li><li>must be supported at the top and bottom (or at each end if tested horizontally) by components identical with, and in a manner identical with, the actual construction.</li></ol></li><li id="_432c1f46-13c8-41f3-8f23-e506d6d9b927">If the distance between supports of the actual construction is more than 3 m, then a smaller specimen may be tested but—<ol><li>the distance between supports must be not less than 3 m; and</li><li>forces, reactions and support conditions must be modelled so as to reproduce the behaviour of the actual construction if it were tested in-situ.</li></ol></li></ol></subclause></clause>