tensile stress

Scientific  

1. See under axial stress

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Example Sentences

Once the amount of strain exceeds the “tensile stress” of the material, or how much it can take before breaking, “the failure can be unexpected and very sudden,” Sehitoglu says.

From Newsweek

The College of Science and Engineering plans to purchase equipment for testing the tensile stress and compressive strength of different materials for use in the structural and strength of materials laboratory.

From Washington Times

A flexure test produces tensile stress in the convex side of the specimen and compression stress in the concave side.

From Forbes

The twisted steel used for the column reinforcement was made at the local steel plant, but for the beams, etc., a twisted lug bar, of higher quality and greater permissible tensile stress, was used.

From Project Gutenberg

The work also explains why rope makers need to feed in the strands at angles higher than that of the final zero-twist structure, Bohr says; the tensile stress in the rope will automatically adjust the newly added portion to the zero-twist configuration.

From US News