1 Strength and fracture mechanism of iron reinforced tricalcium phosphate cermet fabricated by spark plasma sintering Serhii Tkachenko a , Miroslava Horynová a , Mariano Casas-Luna a , Sebastian Diaz-de-la-Torre b , Karel Dvorak c , Ladislav Celko a , Jozef Kaiser a , Edgar B. Montufar a,* a CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic b CIITEC - Centro de Investigación e Innovación Tecnológica, Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City, Mexico c Faculty of Civil Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic * Corresponding author: Address: CEITEC – BUT, Purkyňova 656/123, Brno 612 00, Czech Republic E-mail address: eb.montufar@ceitec.vutbr.cz Tel.: (+420) 54114 9201