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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



... ft. 6 in. diameter, and the leading wheels 3 ft. 6 in. The frames of steel are single, with inside bearings to all the wheels, and the boiler, of steel, is 9 ft. 10 in. long and 4 ft. 2 in. diameter. The steel used has a tensile strength of 32 to 34 tons per square inch, all the rivets are put in by hydraulic pressure, and the magnetic oxide on the surface of the plates where they overlap is washed off by a little weak sal-ammoniac and water. In testing, steam is first got up to 30 lb. on the square inch, the ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 • Various

... Joseph Whitworth, of Manchester, England, consists in what might be called scale armor. A section of a sample of the armor represents four plates. The outer layer, one inch thick, is composed of steel of a tensile strength of 80 tons per square inch; the second layer, one inch thick, of steel whose tensile strength is 40 tons per square inch; the third and fourth layers, each one-half inch thickness, of mild steel. The outer layer is in small squares of about ten inches on a side, and is fastened to the second ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 803, May 23, 1891 • Various

... gate, passes through both top and bottom hinge, and binds them and the gate securely together. The additional fastenings for hinge are made with carriage-bolts. Nothing but a power beyond the enormous tensile strength of iron and the compressible strength of wood, will cause the gates to yield ...
— Woodward's Country Homes • George E. Woodward



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



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