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Yes. This is because the strength of wood when compressed, decreases per length unit the longer the piece of wood is. However, wood holds the same strength in tension no matter the length. In the compression boomilever, the compression chord is longer than in the tension boomilever.
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Why is tensile strength stronger than compressive strength?
Neither tensile strength nor compressive strength is inherently "stronger." Some materials are stronger in tension; other materials are stronger in compression. For example, rope is much stronger in tension than in compression, but concrete is much stronger in compression than in tension.
What are the forces of an arch bridge?
Tension and Compression
What can you reinforce concrete with?
There are different forces on a materials such as Compression and Tension. Compression is pushing a material together. Tension is pulling a material apart. Concrete has good strength in Compression, but is weak in Tension. The steel reinforcement improves the resistance to tension of the concrete.
What kind of stresses are produced in a beam during transverse vibration?
If you load it normal to the beam axis you get bending stresses ( tension and compression) and shear stresses. If you load it along the axis you get axial stress ( tension or compression)
A couple is applied to a beam resulting in half of the cross section experiencing tension and the other compression divided by the neutral axis so how do you find which half experiences tension?
This will cause the beam to bend. You need to see the beam like a stack of spaghetti. Extended spagghettis are in tension Shortened spaghettis are in compression (equals signs represent the beam, dots represent air) If it bends like this, it is tension on top, compression below ........=============....... ..===............................===.. =.........................................= If it bends like this, it is compression on top, tension bottom =.........................................= ..===............................===.. ........=============........
Stone slabs are stronger under compression or tension?
Stone slabs are stronger under compression.
Is spaghetti stronger in tension or compression?
Spaghetti is stronger under tension because spaghetti is brittle and therefore a smaller yield point. This is bad for compression because compression requires a large elastic value, which spaghetti doesn't have. Because tension hardly changes spaghetti it makes it stronger than compression.
Why is tensile strength stronger than compressive strength?
Neither tensile strength nor compressive strength is inherently "stronger." Some materials are stronger in tension; other materials are stronger in compression. For example, rope is much stronger in tension than in compression, but concrete is much stronger in compression than in tension.
Are straws stronger under tension or compression?
tension when it bends the ridges are pulling apart and thats tension
Are marshmallows stronger in tension or compression?
Marshmallows are strronger in comperesseion.
Is brick stronger than metal?
Brick will usually be stronger in compression, but metals will usually be stronger in tension.
Should the tension members or the compression members be stronger for a paper bridge that's being built by using only Elmer's white glue and computer papers?
The tension and compression members should be equally strong.
How do compression and tension create motion?
tension streches it compression squeezes it
How can the forces of compression and tension work together to make a stronger bridge?
The forces of tension and compression may work together by pushing the pieces of the bridge together. This can help ensure maximum even weight distribution, and ensure joint contact.
Compare the way that compression affects the crust to the way that tension affects the crust?
compression and tension are opposite. compression pushes the crust together but tension pulls it apart
Why was the crack an effect of tension and not compression stress?
A crack is caused by tension not compression because tension pulls matter apart while compression pushes matter together
List the three types of stress that occur in earth's crust?
the 3 kinds of stress are compression,tension, and shearing
