Ceramic is a brittle material.

In order to find the strength of hard brittle material, threepoint bending or four point bending test is used.
The test results provide the transverse rupture strength of the material as
1.5FL
TRS
bt 2
Here, transverse rupture strength is TRS, applied force at fracture is F, length of the
specimen is L, breadth of the specimen is b, and thickness of the specimen is t.