Home > Terms > English, UK (UE) > Tensile strength

Tensile strength

The highest tensile stress that a material can withstand before failure or rupture occurs - the force being applied in a direction tending to elongate the material.

This is auto-generated content. You can help to improve it.
0
  • Part of Speech: noun
  • Synonym(s):
  • Blossary:
  • Industry/Domain: Energy
  • Category: Natural gas
  • Company:
  • Product:
  • Acronym-Abbreviation:
Collect to Blossary

Member comments

You have to log in to post to discussions.

Terms in the News

Featured Terms

Harry8L
  • 0

    Terms

  • 0

    Blossaries

  • 1

    Followers

Industry/Domain: Automotive Category: Sport utility vehicle

FT-1

The Toyota FT-1 is a concept car unveiled at the January 2014 North American International Auto Show. 'FT' stands for Future Toyota. ...

Contributor

Featured blossaries

Medecine: Immunodeficiency and pathophysiology

Category: Science   2 22 Terms

Religious Fasting

Category: Religion   2 20 Terms

Browers Terms By Category