tensile stress

collocation in English

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tensile
adjective
uk
/ˈten.saɪl/us
/ˈten.sɪl/
If a material is tensile, it can ...
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stress
noun
uk
/stres/us
/stres/
great worry caused by a difficult situation, or something that causes ...
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With increasingtensilestressdue to dehydration, brittle fractures develop at these inhomogeneities.
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The fractures grow with increasing dehydration and increasingtensilestress.
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The fracture grows with increasing dehydration and increasingtensilestress.
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With increasingtensilestressthe materials tensile strength is exceeded and brittle fractures form at a right angle to the action line of stress, parallel to lamination.
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It also experiences strongtensilestress, which may crack films thicker than 200 nm.
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If there is a season check in the knot, as is often the case, it will offer little resistance to thistensilestress.
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In this case, remotetensilestressis applied, allowing microcracks to open slightly throughout the tensile region.
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Fractures may also be a result from shear ortensilestress.
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Smaller precipitate particles in a host lattice leads to atensilestress, whereas larger precipitate particles leads to a compressive stress.
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Presence of atensilestress, either inherent or externally applied, is necessary for metals to be damaged.
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For example, metals in general exhibit yielding and plastic deformation, whereas most fiber-reinforced composites are elastic in theirtensilestress-strain characteristics.
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Glass and glass-to-metal interfaces are especially sensitive totensilestress.
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Above the dislocation there is a compressive stress and below there is atensilestress.
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Because brucite is a swelling mineral, it causes a local volumetric expansion responsible fortensilestressin concrete.
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While applying atensilestressto a ductile material, instead of immediately breaking the material will instead elongate.
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It is at this point where the presence of reaction by products, sodium orthophosphate, begins to contribute totensilestress.
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This type of stress may be called (simple) normal stress or uniaxial stress; specifically, (uniaxial, simple, etc.)tensilestress.
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This helps alleviatetensilestressfor when the reservoir is not only full but empty.
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