The tensile-strength test is inherently fruitless; in the process of collecting data, the sample is ruined. While this is acceptable when a decent supply of the sample exists, nondestructive procedures are better for materials that are costly or difficult to fabricate or that have been made into finished or semicompleted samples.
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April 14th, 2010