On the location of fracture in brittle solids—II

✍ Scribed by K. P. L. Oh; I. Finnie

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1970
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 464 KB
• Volume: 6
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1573-2673
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00182621

✦ Synopsis

The fracture produced in a slender rod, when a compressive stress pulse reflects from a free end as tension, has often been used to measure the tensile strength of brittle solids. In the present paper it is shown that the distribution of fracture location, when many such tests are made with a rectangular pulse of fixed stress level, may be used to deduce the distribution in strength of the material The procedure is illustrated u~ng tests on glass rods.