Flexural Strength of Ceramic and Glass Rods

Journal of Testing and Evaluation

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 222-244

  Quinn, George D ^a   Sparenberg, Brian T ^b   Koshy, Philip ^c   Ives, Lewis K ^a   Jahanmir, Said ^d   Arola, Dwayne D ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d Now with MITI Heart   (United States)

Author keywords

ASTM C 1684; Brittle materials; Ceramics; Concentrated load error; Contact cracks; Contact point tangency shift error; Cradles; Cylindrical specimens; Eccentric loading error; Errors; Flexural strength; Four point loading; Friction error; Glass; Initial curvature error; Large deflection; Poor articulation; Rods; Silicon nitride; Standard; Strain gage; Three point loading; Wedging error; Weibull statistics; Wrong span error

Indexed keywords

ASTM C-1684; BRITTLE MATERIALS; CERAMICS; CONCENTRATED LOAD ERROR; CONTACT CRACKS; CONTACT POINT TANGENCY SHIFT ERROR; CRADLES; CYLINDRICAL SPECIMENS; ECCENTRIC LOADING ERROR; FLEXURAL STRENGTH; FOUR-POINT LOADING; INITIAL CURVATURE ERROR; LARGE DEFLECTION; POOR ARTICULATION; RODS; THREE-POINT LOADING; WEDGING ERROR; WEIBULL STATISTICS; WRONG SPAN ERROR; CERAMIC; CONCENTRATED LOAD; CONTACT CRACK; CONTACT POINTS; CRADLE; CURVATURE ERROR; ECCENTRIC LOADING; FOUR-POINT; FRICTION ERROR; INITIAL CURVATURE; POINT LOADING; ROD; STRAIN-GAGES;

BARS (METAL); BENDING STRENGTH; BRITTLENESS; CERAMIC MATERIALS; CRACKS; END EFFECTORS; FRICTION; GLASS; GLASS CERAMICS; LOADING; SILICON NITRIDE; STANDARDS; STRAIN GAGES; STRUTS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TENSILE TESTING; ERRORS; FATIGUE TESTING; STRESS ANALYSIS; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

ERROR STATISTICS; SILICON NITRIDE;

EID: 67650885858     PISSN: 00903973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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