Advanced Structural Analysis/Part I - Theory/General Properties of Materials/Measures/Elasticity/Tensile Testing

Tensile Testing

Young's modulus can be measured by tensile testing of specimens such as the one in the picture below.

Tensile testing.

Equation (1) gives

$E=\frac{\mathrm{\Delta }\sigma }{\mathrm{\Delta }ϵ}$

Although, the procedure may seem perfectly straight forward at a glimpse, there are certain things that should be noted. Firstly,... Continue here