tensile stress

How to use tensile stress in a sentence

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

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 17, Slice 3 | Various

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

  The Mechanical Properties of Wood | Samuel J. Record

• 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.

  Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design | Edward Godfrey

• 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.

  Some Mooted Questions in Reinforced Concrete Design | Edward Godfrey

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

  Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXX, Dec. 1910 | A. Kempkey