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Tensile strength   /tˈɛnsəl strɛŋkθ/   Listen
Tensile strength

noun
1.
The strength of material expressed as the greatest longitudinal stress it can bear without tearing apart.





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"Tensile strength" Quotes from Famous Books



... represents the spacing of rivets composed of steel plates three-eighths inch thick, averaging 58,000 pounds tensile strength on boiler fifty-four inches diameter, secured by iron rivets seven-eighths inch diameter. Joints of these dimensions have been in constant use for the last fourteen years, carrying 100 pounds ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891 • Various
... of the barbed wire industry would hardly have been possible without steel. Iron wire, used for fencing prior to the introduction of steel, was not suitable, seeing that iron does not possess sufficient tensile strength and lacks homogeneity, qualities which Bessemer and open-hearth steels ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 - "Banks" to "Bassoon" • Various


Words linked to "Tensile strength" :   strength, durability, lastingness, enduringness


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