Table III.
Summary of the Elastic Properties, Tensile Strength, and Mean Yield Pressures of Tablets
| Case no. | Section | Section solid fraction | Tablet, n = 30 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Young’s modulus, E (GPa) | Tensile strength, σ (MPa) | Mean yield pressure, P y (MPa) | |||
| Case 1 | Left | 0.53 | 2.67 (0.21) | 5.21 (0.20) | 91 (2.2) |
| Middle | 0.70 | 1.28 (0.09) | 2.79 (0.15) | 99 (2.8) | |
| Right | 0.57 | 2.34 (0.16) | 5.12 (0.21) | 96 (1.3) | |
| Case 2 | Left | 0.45 | 0.84 (0.04) | 1.65 (0.09) | 88 (3.8) |
| Middle | 0.48 | 0.82 (0.08) | 1.55 (0.04) | 92 (3.4) | |
| Right | 0.46 | 0.80 (0.07) | 1.59 (0.08) | 90 (3.1) | |
| Case 3 | Left | 0.63 | 1.71 (0.17) | 3.18 (0.12) | 93 (4.3) |
| Middle | 0.66 | 1.69 (0.08) | 3.12 (0.07) | 95 (4.1) | |
| Right | 0.65 | 1.66 (0.15) | 3.21 (0.08) | 94 (3.3) | |
| Unlubricated | n/a | 3.78 (0.13) | 8.69 (0.12) | 80 (3.6) | |
| Virgin MCC powder | |||||
| Lubricated | n/a | 3.54 (0.11) | 8.12 (0.15) | 85 (2.1) | |
| Virgin MCC powder | |||||
| Virgin MCC powder (lubricated tooling) | n/a | 3.66 (0.14) | 8.53 (0.09) | 80 (2.4) | |
| Case 1 (blend) | n/a | 1.52 (0.13) | 3.11 (0.11) | 97 (1.9) | |
| Case 2 (blend) | n/a | 0.81 (0.07) | 1.61 (0.08) | 91 (2.4) | |
| Case 3 (blend) | n/a | 1.69 (0.09) | 3.24 (0.15) | 94 (2.7) | |
Standard deviations in estimate of gigapascals (for E) and megapascal (for σ and P y) are included in parenthesis. Tablet solid fraction of 0.85