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    Mechanical testing of ceramics focuses on properties like fracture toughness, failure stress, and hardness due to ceramics' brittleness. Specimen preparation is challenging and tensile tests are not useful. Common tests include Vickers hardness testing, three-point and four-point flexural tests to determine modulus of rupture and flexural strength, and four-point bend tests for fracture toughness determination. Indentation fracture toughness tests are easy to perform but not acceptable for determining true fracture toughness (KIc).

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    Mechanical testing of ceramics focuses on properties like fracture toughness, failure stress, and hardness due to ceramics' brittleness. Specimen preparation is challenging and tensile tests are not useful. Common tests include Vickers hardness testing, three-point and four-point flexural tests to determine modulus of rupture and flexural strength, and four-point bend tests for fracture toughness determination. Indentation fracture toughness tests are easy to perform but not acceptable for determining true fracture toughness (KIc).

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    Mechanical testing of ceramics focuses on properties like fracture toughness, failure stress, and hardness due to ceramics' brittleness. Specimen preparation is challenging and tensile tests are not useful. Common tests include Vickers hardness testing, three-point and four-point flexural tests to determine modulus of rupture and flexural strength, and four-point bend tests for fracture toughness determination. Indentation fracture toughness tests are easy to perform but not acceptable for determining true fracture toughness (KIc).

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    Mechanical testing of ceramics focuses on properties like fracture toughness, failure stress, and hardness due to ceramics' brittleness. Specimen preparation is challenging and tensile tests are not useful. Common tests include Vickers hardness testing, three-point and four-point flexural tests to determine modulus of rupture and flexural strength, and four-point bend tests for fracture toughness determination. Indentation fracture toughness tests are easy to perform but not acceptable for determining true fracture toughness (KIc).

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    Mechanical Testing of Ceramics

    • Tensile test is not useful


    due to brittleness
    • Specimen preparation: a
    major constraint
    • Properties of interest:
    Fracture toughness, failure
    stress, hardness
    • Reliability of ceramics:
    Probabilistic design
    Hardness
    • Vickers hardness is the
    preferred test

    • F in kgf and d in mm.


    Flexural (Bend) Tests
    Modulus of Rupture (Flexural Strength)

    σ = 3LF/(2bd²) in 3-point test of rectangular


    specimen

    σ = 3Fa/(bd²) in 4-point test of rectangular


    specimen

    L – specimen length;
    F – total force applied to the specimen by
    two loading pins;
    b – specimen width;
    d – specimen thickness;
    r – specimen section radius;
    a - distance between the supporting and
    loading pins;
    Fracture Toughness
    • Four-point bend test the best choice
    • Pre-cracking of specimen (single edge
    notch beam) and chevron crack
    Indentation Fracture Toughness
    • Easy to perform but not acceptable
    as KIc.
    • Vickers indenter, 0.5 to 10 kg load
    (enough to cause crack formation)
    50 m
    • Fracture toughness Gc expressed
    as strain energy release rate (J m- 2  d 2

    2) Gc  2 P 3 
    c 
    • Zeta   0.016, P = load,
    Plane Stress
    d = diagonal, c = crack length
    K c2
    • E = Elastic modulus,  = Poisson’s Gc 
    E
    ratio
    Plane Strain

    Gc 

    K c2 1  2 
    E

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