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How do you use tensile?

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If you mean tensile strength, this is the highest strength a material can handle in a tension aspect. A good experiment to determine the tensile strength of a material is to buy a tin cord. You can tie the tin cord on one end to a tree or anything high enough. On the other end you can tie some weight to it, the tin will elongate until it breaks. you need to make 2 marks on the tin cord and measure the distance between the (make them near the center of the cord). With this you can add weight and when the material breaks this is a good approximation of the tensile strength of the material. Also by measuring the distance between the 2 lines you can find the elongation of the material at a given force.

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