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Ultimate tensile strength (also called UTS, tensile strength, TS, ultimate strength or F_\text{tu} in notation) is the maximum stress that a material can withstand while being stretched
In mechanics, compressive strength (or compression strength) is the capacity of a material or structure to withstand loads tending to reduce size (as opposed to tensile strength which withstands loa