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Tensile Strength

Tensile Strength is the maximum tensile stress a material can withstand before failure.

Thin-walled pressure vessels

there are  cylindrical spherical conical or toroidal shells subject to internal or external pressure from а gas or а liquid.

Toughness

is a material property and a measure of the energy a material can contain. It is the area under the entire stress-strain diagram (up to the point of failure).