This International Standard specifies specimen dimensions and a testing procedure for tensile shear testing of spot, seam and embossed projection welds, in overlapping sheets, in any metallic material of thickness 0,5 mm to 10 mm, where the welds have a maximum diameter of 7Öðt (where t is the sheet thickness in mm). The object of tensile shear testing is to determine the tensile shear force that the test specimen can sustain.