A method is proposed for determining the elastic modulus of a material from the results of bending tests performed on a prismatic sample using simultaneously the method of digital correlation of images for precise measurement of the displacements of points in the sample. This procedure was tested in three-point bending of steel and graphite samples. The effect of the ratio of the distance between the supports to the height of the cross-section of the sample on the reliability of the determined elastic modulus of the material is evaluated. The values obtained for the modulus of elasticity of steel and graphite agree with the characteristic values for the investigated materials when the ratio of the distance between the supports to the height of the cross-section of the sample is greater than 7.
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Translated from Atomnaya Énergiya, Vol. 122, No. 5, pp. 277–282, May, 2017.
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Gol’tsev, V.Y., Osintsev, A.V. & Plotnikov, A.S. Dependence of the Determined Value of the Elastic Modulus of a Material on the Ratio of the Distance Between the Supports to the Height of the Cross-Section of the Bent Sample. At Energy 122, 339–345 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10512-017-0276-2
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