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What is Tensile strength ?

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Tensile strength:

  1. Tensile strength is the maximum load that a material can support without fracture when being stretched, divided by the original cross-sectional area of the material.
  2. Tensile strengths have dimensions of force per unit area.
  3. It measures the strength of the materials.


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