Tensile Strength Definition

Tensile Strength Sentence Examples

• Most metals when molten are capable of dissolving at least small proportions of carbon, which, in general, leads to a deterioration in metallicity, except in the case of iron, which by the addition of small percentages of carbon gains in elasticity and tensile strength with little loss of plasticity.

• Its tensile strength is higher than that of steel.

• Such an alloy can be cast like ordinary bronze, but excels the latter in hardness, elasticity, toughness and tensile strength.

• The safe tensile strength of Portland cement concrete would be something like one-tenth of its compressive strength, and might be far less.

• On this account it is usual to neglect the tensile strength of concrete in designing structures, and to arrange the material in such a way that tensile stresses are avoided.