tensile stress

1. See under axial stress

Example Sentences

Cobalt, curiously enough, was found to be quite unaffected by tensile stress.

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The knot, especially (as is often the case) if there is a season check in it, offers little resistance to this tensile stress.

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It is a simple matter to find the tensile stress in that part of a plain concrete chimney between two radii on the windward side.

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The steel can take just as much tensile stress if its amount is determined in this way as it can if any other method is used.

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By doubling the quantities of concrete and steel, which would mean a tensile stress in the steel of only 8,000 lb.

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