Stress generated by a force which tends to elongate or stretch a body or structure.

Stress due to tension.

A stress that pulls two parts of a body apart.

A stress that tends to cause a material to stretch. Can cause joints to open and may release blocks causing rock falls.

This can result from the fabrication of the material or applied stresses to the material in operation. This would most commonly be caused from high tension in the system.

A stress caused by stretching of a material.

Axial forces per unit area applied to a body that tend to extend it.

A stress that causes two parts of an elastic body. on either side of a typical stress plane, to pull apart. Contrast with compressive stress.

Stress pulling on a material or structure.

a normal stress that tends to pull apart the material on the opposite sides of the plane on which it acts. AGI

Tensile stress (or tension) is the stress state leading to expansion; that is, the length of a material or compression member tends to increase in the tensile direction. The volume of the material stays constant. Therefore in a uniaxial material the length increases in the tensile stress direction and the other two directions will decrease in size (see Poisson's ratio for detail).