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Flexural strength is resistance offered against bending.Tensile strength is resistance offered against tensile force.

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What is tensile strength of concrete?

The tensile strength of concrete is 10% of it's compressive strength.


Is phosphor bronze has high compressive strength?

The compressive strength of Phosphor Bronze is directly proportional to the tensile strength, For example 1/2 hard phosphor bronze has a Tensile Strength of 60 to 75 ksi and a Yield Strength of 45 to 70. For typical engineering calculations, the compressive strength can be considered equal to the yield strength.


What is the tensile strength of glass fiber?

The compressive strength of bricks varies depending on the type of bricks and what they are used for. The compressive strength of conventional red bricks is 40 to 65 Kg/cm2. In comparison, flyash bricks have a compressive strength of 70 to 120 Kg/cm2.


Which is weaker shear strength or tensile strength or compressive strength?

That all depends on the material For most all metals, tensile strength is stronger by about factor of 1.7 For most metals tensile strength is equal to compression strength For concrete, both comppression strength and shear strength are higher than tensile strength For many composites, tensile strenght is higherthan compression strength


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.

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What is tensile strength of concrete?

The tensile strength of concrete is 10% of it's compressive strength.


What percent is the tensile strength of concrete in comparission to the compressive strength?

80%


An appropriate means of compressive strength and tensile of glass?

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Is phosphor bronze has high compressive strength?

The compressive strength of Phosphor Bronze is directly proportional to the tensile strength, For example 1/2 hard phosphor bronze has a Tensile Strength of 60 to 75 ksi and a Yield Strength of 45 to 70. For typical engineering calculations, the compressive strength can be considered equal to the yield strength.


In splitting tensile test actually you are getting compressive strength but in answer you are writing it as tensile strength why?

The splitting tensile test specimen is subjected to a compressive load. For brittle matrixes such as cementitious products, the compressive strength is typically around an order of magnitude higher than tensile strength. On a microstructure scale, the compressive forces are trying to crush the individual crystallites while the tensile forces only have to fracture the connections between crystallites. The splitting tensile test specimen fails due to the tensile forces generated as it distorts perpendicular to the applied compressive load. In practice, a loading cap on the loading faces of the specimen generates a compressive column in the sample and the true failure is in shear along this compressive column due to the tensile forces. In practicality, this test is also useful for flexural testing of weak composite materials where in both cases a compressive load generates tensile forces that initiate a failure that travels to the neutral axis resulting in shear as well.


What is the difference between comppresive and tensile strength?

Compressive strength is generated by a force which is acting into or towards the centre of an object. Tensile strength measures the force required to pull something such as rope.


What is the tensile strength of glass fiber?

The compressive strength of bricks varies depending on the type of bricks and what they are used for. The compressive strength of conventional red bricks is 40 to 65 Kg/cm2. In comparison, flyash bricks have a compressive strength of 70 to 120 Kg/cm2.


Which is weaker shear strength or tensile strength or compressive strength?

That all depends on the material For most all metals, tensile strength is stronger by about factor of 1.7 For most metals tensile strength is equal to compression strength For concrete, both comppression strength and shear strength are higher than tensile strength For many composites, tensile strenght is higherthan compression strength


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 is the SI unit for strength?

If you mean force, the SI unit is the newton. If you mean the strength of a material - its ability to withstand force - there are different types of strength: look up Compressive strength, Tensile strength, Shear strength. For example, the units for tensile strength are newtons / square meter.


What is the strength of steel reinforced concrete?

The reinforcment will have little or no effect on compressive strength. It will however impact tensile strength. It depends on the concrete mix design and amount of reinforcment, what the tensile strength impacts will be. The question needs to be a lot more detailed to provide a specific answer.


Instruments used in clay brick test?

Tensile testing machine, Brick strength testing machine, Computerized compression testing machine are the instruments used. Compressive strength of burnt clay bricks is determined by compressive test.