His best buildings have a delicacy inseparable from their tensile power.
The true strength of the Constitution has always been tensile the taut, almost musically tuned cables that suspend and balance the executive, legislative and judicial branches .
Finding little information in anatomical literature on the tensile strength of human tendons, Alfred Eugene Cronkite of Stanford University took 294 tendons from corpses .
Patent awarded today to NJIT for novel use of water jets to create high tensile strength alloy parts ( New Jersey Institute of Technology ) US Patent Number 8,459,078 entitled "System and Method for Forming of Tubular Parts" discloses a method for using propellant driven water. It teaches a method in which a combustion chamber generates a gas to drive water through a tubular part with sufficient force to mold the part into the form provided by the die surrounding the high tensile strength alloy ...
June 11, 2013 - EurekAlert!
Silkworms work with robot to make 3D-printed dome (Credit: Steven Keating) Animals can do amazing things, and their behaviors and physical properties have inspired some groundbreaking tech . But what if we could do more with what animals make? Spider silk, for instance, has a tensile strength similar to that of alloyed steel -- and some fascinating potential uses. But the silkworm is by far one of the most productive animals we rely upon. The ...
June 11, 2013 - CNET
Mary Karr in MiamiHerald.com I am the kind of person, like my mother, who gave up on having a good reputation a long time ago,Karr says. "I spent so much of my childhood marginalized because of how my family is. You had to develop some tensile strength in your ego or...
T Bone Burnett in Boston Globe (registration) She's incredibly intuitive,Burnett says. "From the first time I met her, when she was very young, she always knew what was good. Her songs have this tensile strength."