RS TENSILE PVT IN INDIA Tensile strength is the amount of load or stress that can be handled by a material before it stretches and breaks. As its name implies, tensile strength is the material’s resistance to tension that is caused by mechanical loads applied to the material. The ability to resist breaking under tensile stress is one of the most important and widely measured properties of materials used for structural applications. The tensile strength is the maximum tensile stress that a material can be subjected to before failure, although the actual definition of failure usually varies according to the material’s type and design. Reduction in ductility and an increase in brittleness are associated with an accelerated corrosion rate, which in turn can change the failure of the material from a ductile failure to a much more dangerous brittle failure.