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tensile stress

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tensile stress
See under axial stress.


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Parameters measured in the testing were: * % retention of hardness--ISO 868; * % retention of ultimate tensile strength--ISO 37; * % retention of tensile stress at 100% elongation--ISO 37; and * % retention of ultimate elongation--ISO 37.
Due to their complete lack of ductility, ceramics fail suddenly and catastrophically on reaching the critical tensile stress in the region of inhomogeneities in the microstructure.
 
 
 
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