Tensile Strength

Domain	Definitions
Electrical Engineering	The pulling stress needed to break a material. Source: European Union. (references)
Industry	Force, reported in mega pascals(lbs. per sq. in. )to break a test specimen of a cured rubber compound. Source: European Union. (references)
	The maximum force supported per unit width of a test strip until the onset of rupture in a tensile test. Source: European Union. (references)
Metallurgy	The tensile strength of a hardened sand is the unit of sectional load that fractures a suitably-shaped test specimen subjected to a tensile stress passing through its axis of revolution. Source: European Union. (references)
Meteorology & Standards	The tensile strength is the quotient of the maximum stress by the initial cross section of the test piece, i. e. the unit stress corresponding to the maximum stress. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	The maximum applied tensile stress that a body can withstand before failure occurs. Syn:tenacity. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Specialty Definition: Tensile strength

The tensile strength of a material is the maximum amount of tensile stress that can be applied to it before it ceases to be elastic. If too much force is applied the material will break or become plastic, i.e., once the force exertion is stopped the material won't go back to its initial shape.

Tensile strength is measured in units of force per unit area. In the SI system, the unit is newton per square metre (N/m²). The U.S customary unit is pounds per square inch (psi).

The breaking strength of a rope is specified in units of force, such as newtons, without specifying the cross-sectional area of the rope. This is often loosely called tensile strength, but this not a strictly correct use of the term.

The ultimate tensile strength (UTS) of a material is the force per unit area at which it breaks in two.

Tensile strength can be measured for liquids as well as solids. For example, when a tree draws water from its roots to its upper leaves by transpiration, the column of water is pulled upwards from the top by capillary action, and this force is transmitted down the column by its tensile strength. Air pressure from below also plays a small part in a tree's ability to draw up water, but this alone would only be sufficient to push the column of water to a height of about ten metres, and trees can grow much higher than that. (See also cavitation, which can be thought of as the consequence of water being "pulled too hard".)

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Modern Translations: Tensile Strength

Language		Translations for "tensile strength"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Bulgarian		издръжливост на опън. (various references)

Danish		traekstyrke, traekholdbarhed, trækstyrke (strength, ultimate stress), trækbrudstyrke, brudstyrke (breaking strength, rupture, tensile resistance), brudlast (breaking load, breaking strength, buckling load, collapse load, failure load, rupture load, ultimate load). (various references)

Dutch		trekvastheid, treksterkte, weerstand tegen trek, breukweerstand, breukvastheid. (various references)

Finnish		vetolujuus (tenacity, tensile resistance), murtolujuus, hiekan vetolujuus. (various references)

French		résistence � la traction, résistance � la traction (tensile resistance), résistance � la rupture par traction (tensile resistance), résistance � la rupture, résistance � la fracture, charge de rupture. (various references)

German		Zugfestigkeit (tenacity, tensile resistance). (various references)

Greek		εφελκυστική αντοχή, αντοχή σε εφελκυσμό, αντοχή στον εφελκυσμό, αντοχή εφελκυσμού, αντίσταση στον εφελκυσμό, αντίσταση οστού στη θραύση. (various references)

Hungarian		húzószilárdság. (various references)

Italian		resistenza alla trazione (pull resistance, tensile resistance, tractive resistance), resistenza alla rottura, resistenza alla fratura, resistenza a trazione. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		張力 (tension). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		ちょうりょく (hearing ability, tension, tidal energy). (various references)

Pig Latin		ensiletay engthstray

Portuguese		tensão de resistência, resistência � tracção (pull resistance, tensile resistance, tractive resistance), carga de ruptura (breaking load, failing load). (various references)

Russian		прочность на разрыв (breaking strength), предел прочности на разрыв. (various references)

Spanish		resistencia a tracción, resistencia a la tracción (tensile grade), resistencia a la fractura, carga de rotura (breaking load, failure load, rupture load, ultimate load). (various references)

Swedish		dragstyrka (tensile resistance), draghållfasthet, brottgräns. (various references)

Turkish		gerilme direnci. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Misspellings: Tensile Strength

Anagrams: Tensile Strength

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-e-g-h-i-l-n-n-r-s-s-t-t-t"
	-3 letters: streetlights.
	-4 letters: lengtheners, lengthiness, singletrees, streetlight, strengthens.
	-5 letters: enlightens, enshrinees, entireness, gentilesse, gentleness, lengthener, lengthiest, letterings, lighteners, resettling, reshingles, retightens, sheltering, singletree, strengthen, teentsiest, telnetting, tighteners.
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Alternative Orthography: Tensile Strength

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 65 6E 73 69 6C 65 53 74 72 65 6E 67 74 68

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100101 01101110 01110011 01101001 01101100 01100101 00100000 01010011 01110100 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100111 01110100 01101000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 006E 0073 0069 006C 0065 0053 0074 0072 0065 006E 0067 0074 0068

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Tenacity	Unbreakability, tensile strength.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	Method for Measuring Dynamic Tensile Strength of Optical Fiber (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression	Frequency per Day
tensile strength	41
tensile strength of steel	10
bolt tensile strength	6
aluminum tensile strength	4
material tensile strength	2
metal tensile strength	2
ultimate tensile strength	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expression using "tensile strength": guaranteed ultimate tensile strength. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings
	"Tensile Strength" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: tesile strength. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Tensile Strength

Definition: Tensile Strength