Tensile Testing Machines. Tensile strength is the stress at which a material breaks or permanently deforms. There are three definitions of tensile strength, yield strength, ultimate strength and breaking strength. Tensile tests are usually carded out on wire, strip or machined samples with either circular or rectangular cross section. Test pieces are screwed into or gripped in jaws and stretched by moving the grips apart at a constant rate while measuring the load and the grip separation.
According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Japanese currency is called the yen. The symbol of the yen is Â¥. The yen is among the major international currencies, due to Japan's economic renaissance in the second half of the 20th century.
Samurai were the military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan. In Japanese, they are usually referred to as bushi or buke. According to translator William Scott Wilson: In Chinese, the character ä¾ was originally a verb meaning to wait upon, accompany persons in the upper ranks of society, and this is also true of the original term in Japanese, saburau. In both countries the terms were nominalized to mean those who serve in close attendance to the nobility ...