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Indeed, the team's study, which appeared in Nature Communications this week, notes the bamboo plastic displays a tensile strength and work of fracture (force required to fracture a material) higher than that of traditional plastics.
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Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2025
The glass fibers offer tensile strength, bound together by the resin, resulting in a flexible composite that is also very durable.
—Kathleen Turner, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Testing showed that films made from grapevine canes were, in terms of tensile strength, even stronger than traditional plastic bags.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 13 Aug. 2025
This weakness often leads to cracking under bending or stretching forces, which is why steel reinforcement is used to provide tensile strength (the amount of stress a material can take before breaking).
—Carol Cain, Freep.com, 3 July 2025
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Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 7 Oct. 2025
The glass fibers offer tensile strength, bound together by the resin, resulting in a flexible composite that is also very durable.
—Kathleen Turner, Forbes.com, 29 Aug. 2025
Testing showed that films made from grapevine canes were, in terms of tensile strength, even stronger than traditional plastic bags.
—Georgina Jedikovska, Interesting Engineering, 13 Aug. 2025
This weakness often leads to cracking under bending or stretching forces, which is why steel reinforcement is used to provide tensile strength (the amount of stress a material can take before breaking).
—Carol Cain, Freep.com, 3 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for tensile strength
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“Tensile strength.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/tensile%20strength. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.
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