The Tensile Strength of Chrysotile Fibre Shen Wenhua;Xu JiamiIn the present paper, by beginning with the discussion of chrysotile fibre's cylindrical structure, we analyze the causes of field of crystalline stress ex- isted in the chrysotile fibre. According to the amount of valence bonding force between the atoms, the theoretical tensile strength (σ_T) of chrysotile and some other fibrous minerals has been calculated, Taking chrysotile for example, the principal causes of existed difference between the theoretical and practical tensile strength (σ_t) have been explained.