“…These publications were critically examined, but did not reveal any references to the aspects emphasised here. It is also worth mentioning the contributions of Lanaro et al (2009), Andreev (1991, Markides et al (2012), Erarslan et al (2012) and Aydin and Basu (2006), Yang et al (2015), Haeri et al (2014), Choupania et al (2015), Cai et al (2015), which addressed the issue of the Brazilian test, either theoretically or experimentally, or even applied. However, none of them investigated the foundations raised from Timoshenko and Goodier (1970), in which the problem of methodological character examined in this work was found.…”