Sentence examples for tensile from inspiring English sources

Likewise, wrapped around a finely wrought combination of ham and cheese, it offers just enough tensile resistance to encase that delicious goo.

Texturally, like the muffin, the ham should offer a certain tensile strength and resistance to all that slippery egg and smooth hollandaise.

While turbine blades made from Hyfil had all the tensile strength, and more, to withstand the centrifugal forces of a big fan engine at full power, their shear strength left much to be desired.

In particular, they have great tensile strength, meaning they are hard to break when their ends are pulled.

The fading of Labour Reprints Related items Green.view: Sub-subprimeNov 24th 2008Bamboo has a higher tensile strength than steel and can be taped together with natural fibre and resin.

The tensile strength of these metals (both here called bronze) has attracted sculptors for over 5,000 years.

The country has pretty much defeated the boll weevil, and the Department of Agriculture individually tests every bale on obscure measures such as the tensile strength of the fibres.

Longer exposures, however, decrease tensile strength.

For example, if SWNTs can be made in bundles of 100 billion, then a material will be produced that may approach the limits of tensile strength possible for any known material involving the chemical bond.

Offering tensile strengths that can be triple the value of the carbon steels they are designed to replace (e.g., 700 megapascals versus 200 megapascals), they have led to significant weight savings through thickness reductions albeit at a slight loss of structural stiffness, because their elastic moduli are the same as other steels.

The most common conductor is hard-drawn copper wire, which has the benefits of low electrical resistance, high tensile strength, and high resistance to corrosion.