Product Description

Tensile test is a test where a clamped specimen is subjected to a constant rate of tensile loading such that it stretches and ultimately breaks. Typically these tests are performed in accordance with an internationally recognised standard procedure and calculation of results so that the data is portable between labs. The rate of loading can be applied as either a constant rate of extension, constant rate of strain or constant rate of load, depending on the standard.

Stress vs. Strain curve typical of structural steel

• Ultimate Strength
• Yield Strength
• Rupture
• Strain hardening region
• Necking region.

Metals, including steel, have a linear stress-strain