NOUN
- the strength of material expressed as the greatest longitudinal stress it can bear without tearing apart
How To Use tensile strength In A Sentence
- Tungsten has high tensile strength and good creep resistance.
- That matrix has very low tensile strength.
- For example, major ampullate silk, a very tough silk with a tensile strength comparable to Kevlar, is used for the primary dragline or scaffolding of the spider's web.
- All the tested materials presented an increase in diametral tensile strength during the experiment.
- A roof-area cross-member is nitrided (bonding titanium and nitrogen to the parent steel after stamping) to raise its tensile strength to 145,000 lbs/sq.-in.
- The trend observed of increasing tensile strength of amphiboles from tremolite, to amosite, to crocidolite is directly related to the iron content of these fibers. Geology of asbestos
- Other hybrid composites have a combination of colloidal and fine particles, and have better compressive and tensile strength properties than the microfine variety.
- As the outer layers cooled, they compressed the inner layers, giving the cannon greater tensile strength.
- Intriguingly, the tensile strengths of the mutant and wild type fibres were very similar which means that decreased coarseness was not achieved at the expense of strength.
- Our documentation also says "There are various methods for 'approximating' strain based material data from the more readily available monotonic data such as tensile strength, modulus etc. All Discussion Groups: Message List - root
