How do you measure tensile strength of a solid?

Answer 1

The same way that you test the tensile strength of anything - break it in a universal testing machine!

You have to be careful how you hold the rope though - you obviously cannot grip it the way you would grip a metal specimen (since the grips will cut the rope).

Therefore the rope may be locked into special rope-testing grips or tied around a T-bar or pin in a particuar way. As long as the rope breaks n the central "guage length", you have a good result. If it breaks in the region where it is gripped or tied, the result is probably not correct.

Answer 2

You place a specimen of a specific dimension into tensile testing machine (such as made by Instron) and pull on it and measure breaking strength in pounds with a built in or added load cell that is that is very accurate. Tensile strength is this force divided by the specimen cross section area.

Answer 3

You make up a specimen in the shape of a dog bone per ASM standards and load it to failure in a tensile testing machine that has a calibrated load cell. It will measure the failure load then you divide it by the cross sectional area of the specimen to get tensile strength in pounds per square inch

Answer 4

by putting a bunch of stuff on it until it breaks.

Answer 5

You will need to make a test specimen and actually test it in a tensile tester. See the related link for details.

Answer 6

where ever we need the tensile strengthit is nothing but the tensile stress only.... For tensile stree we havea formula called

stress =load/area

Answer 7

The basic unit for measuring tensile strength is the breaking point of the substance being tested.