EN ISO 17138:2025

Fine ceramics (advanced ceramics, advanced technical ceramics) - Mechanical properties of ceramic composites at room temperature - Determination of flexural strength (ISO 17138:2025) EN ISO 17138:2025

Publication date:   Jan 15, 2026

Scope

This document specifies a test method for the determination of the flexural strength of ceramic matrix composite materials with continuous fibre reinforcement, under three-point or four-point bend at room temperature. This document is applicable to all ceramic matrix composites with a continuous fibre reinforcement, unidirectional (1D), bidirectional (2D), and tridirectional xD with (2 < x ≤ 3) as defined in ISO 19634, loaded along one principal axis of reinforcement.