A Biaxial‐Flexure Test for Evaluating Ceramic Strengths
- 1 January 1983
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Ceramic Society
- Vol. 66 (1) , 36-42
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1151-2916.1983.tb09964.x
Abstract
An improved test fixture for biaxial‐tension strength testing of ceramics featuring uniform pressure loading of disks was developed and qualified. Biaxial data were obtained for an alumina ceramic, along with comparable uniaxial data from three‐ and four‐point flexure tests. Weibull statistics provided a good description of the size effect on data from the two uniaxial tests, but underestimated the effect of stress biaxiality. The biaxial strengthening observed in the alumina ceramic is consistent with that observed previously in a glass‐ceramic.Keywords
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