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Hi, For my application it is a cylinder being crushed between two flat plates. However, it turns out that this is used a lot in geology and other fields, and is referred to as a diametral tensile test (DTT). They can use curved surface, which have a diameter greater than the diameter of the...

Hi, I have been searching the web for hours now, and I have had some success, but I have not found everything I am looking for. The best thing I have found was a similar arrangement in Hibbeler’s Mechanics of Materials (hence the name of the thread). This had a short rod of aluminium in a vice...