What Does Tensile Mean?
Tensile refers to a type of external physical force applied to a material in a pulling direction away from its surface. Tensile typically refers to tensile strength or tensile stress.
Tensile refers to a type of external physical force applied to a material in a pulling direction away from its surface. Tensile typically refers to tensile strength or tensile stress.
Tensile strength refers to the degree to which a material can withstand a perpendicularly applied pull force. The applied force is called tensile stress. At the maximum amount of tensile stress applied, a material will undergo failure in the form of breaking, fracturing and permanent deformation.
There are three types of tensile strength: