Issue
DYMAT 2009
Volume 2, 2009
DYMAT 2009 - 9th International Conference on the Mechanical and Physical Behaviour of Materials under Dynamic Loading
Page(s) 1311 - 1316
Section Constitutive Modeling
DOI https://doi.org/10.1051/dymat/2009185
Published online 15 September 2009
DYMAT 2009 (2009) 1311-1316
DOI: 10.1051/dymat/2009185

Failure and fragmentation of alumina cylinders under compressive loading

F. Zhou and Y. Wang

Mechanics and Materials Science Research Centre, Ningbo University 315211, PR China

fzhou@nbu.edu.cn

Published online: 15 September 2009

Abstract
Quasistatic compressive strength of alumina (Al2O3) cylinders was measured using specimen of two sizes. The strength of the material was dependent on the specimen size. High speed video photography showed that the failure of the cylindrical specimen started from axial splitting, and after failure the specimen fragmentized into small pieces. Although the loading applied to the specimen was quasistatic, the failure and fragmentation processes of the materials were dynamic. A fragmentation model was proposed for estimating the average sizes of the fragments. The calculated fragment sizes agreed reasonably well with the experimental data.



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