Modulus of rupture Meaning, Definition & Usage

Definitions
  1. the measure of the force necessary to break a given substance across, as a beam, expressed by eighteen times the load which is required to break a bar of one inch square, supported flatwise at two points one foot apart, and loaded in the middle between the points of support. Rankine.
Definitions
  1. . (Engin.) See under Modulus.

Webster 1913