ASTM specifications for A325 and A490 high-strength bolts are to be tensioned to 70% of the minimum tensile strength. The table above shows this minimum bolt pretension for empirical bolt sizes.

One is tension force, found in stretched wires. Another is the force found in a spring. And last are resistive forces: friction, viscosity and drag. Find out more about contact forces.

Previously, a test method first issued in 1952 for measuring the through-thickness tensile strength of sandwich panels, namely, ASTM C 297, “Flatwise Tensile Strength of Sandwich Constructions,” 2 ...

For an Earth-based space elevator, strategies to reduce tensile forces, or the ability of a material to withstand tension, are crucial, he says. But there are some materials that carry promise.

Suppose I have a rope that is 4 meters long and I pull to the side with a force of 20 Newtons such that it is displaced 10 cm. Putting these values into the above expression, I get a tension force ...