A hydrostatic tension test of a brittle material

✍ Scribed by L. Cridland; W. G. Wood

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1968
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 487 KB
• Volume: 4
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-2673
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00185263

✦ Synopsis

This report describes the development of a new method for testing materials in hydrostatic tension using a spherical specimen of the test material bonded into the center of a cube of matrix material which has tensile loads applied to the faces of the cube. The materials are chosen such that failure first occurs in the test material, in which the stress can be estiraated by elastic theory. Failure is detected from edge displacements of the cube face. While the results for brittle dental plaster have been inconclusive to date, further development of the technique appears promising.