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TENSILE TEST [4 records]

Record 1 2002-01-16

English

Subject field(s)
  • Diagnostic Procedures (Medicine)
  • Pharmacology

French

Domaine(s)
  • Méthodes diagnostiques (Médecine)
  • Pharmacologie

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Procedimientos diagnósticos (Medicina)
  • Farmacología
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Record 2 1993-05-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Textiles: Preparation and Processing
  • Engineering Tests and Reliability
CONT

Elongation: the increase in length of a specimen during a tensile test expressed in units of length.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Apprêt et traitements divers (Textiles)
  • Fiabilité, contrôle et essais (Ingénierie)

Spanish

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Record 3 1991-03-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Synthetic Fabrics
  • Textiles: Preparation and Processing
CONT

Breaking tenacity: Breaking load related to the lineic mass of the yarn before tensile test. It is expressed in N/tex (tex = 10,2 g/dtex or 11,3 g/den).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Textiles artificiels et synthétiques
  • Apprêt et traitements divers (Textiles)
CONT

Ténacité: Force de rupture rapportée à la masse linéique du fil avant l'essai de traction en N/tex (1 N/tex = 10,2 g/dtex ou 11,3 den).

Spanish

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Record 4 1990-05-31

English

Subject field(s)
  • Strength of Materials
  • Engineering Tests and Reliability
  • Destructive and Non-destructive Tests (Mat.)
DEF

A test in which a specimen is subjected to increasing longitudinal pulling stress until fracture occurs.

CONT

The tensile test is frequently used to obtain a great amount of information about the static mechanical properties of a material, including ductility, tensile strength, proportional limit, modulus of elasticity, elastic limit, resilience, yield point, yield strength, and breaking strength.

Key term(s)
  • tensile testing

French

Domaine(s)
  • Résistance des matériaux
  • Fiabilité, contrôle et essais (Ingénierie)
  • Contrôle destructif et non destructif (Matér.)
CONT

L'essai de traction a pour objet d'étudier la déformation et la rupture d'une éprouvette soumise à des sollicitations (...) de sens opposés (...)

CONT

Essai de traction. Cet essai consiste à (...) déterminer une ou plusieurs des caractéristiques mécaniques suivantes: limite d'élasticité (...), résistance à la traction (...), allongement pour cent après rupture (...) et le coefficient de striction pour cent (...)

Spanish

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