Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to flexure or the bending of an elastic solid; producing or tending to produce flexure: as, a flexural stress.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of, pertaining to, or resulting from, flexure; of the nature of, or characterized by, flexure.
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- adjective of, or relating to,
flexure
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Examples
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These forces, known as flexural forces, consist of matching compressive and tensile forces.
Chapter 10 1985
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In particular, the scientists measured a feature called flexural rigidity - a combination of high bone density and large cross-sectional area that allows a bone to resist bending.
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Geologists often talk about the "flexural" link between tectonic loads and sedimentary basins, but they rarely do the math.
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Geologists often talk about the "flexural" link between tectonic loads and sedimentary basins, but they rarely do the math.
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Perhaps, because implementing the "flexural" model is tedious, specially if it is done in spreadsheets.
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Perhaps, because implementing the "flexural" model is tedious, specially if it is done in spreadsheets.
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More technically, the New Phytologist of October 2003 defines some of the traits shown in a study of sclerophylly: “Of the structural properties, strength, toughness and flexural stiffness each made substantial independent contributions to the variation in sclerophylly indices, but the best individual explanators were flexural stiffness and strength.”
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006
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We find that the sudden relaxation of the curvature at the newly freed end leads to a burst of flexural waves, whose dynamics are described by a self-similar solution with no adjustable parameters.
Archive 2006-10-01 Pedro Beltrao 2006
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These flexural waves locally increase the curvature in the rod and we argue that this counter-intuitive mechanism is responsible for the fragmentation of brittle rods under bending.
Public Rambling Pedro Beltrao 2006
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More technically, the New Phytologist of October 2003 defines some of the traits shown in a study of sclerophylly: “Of the structural properties, strength, toughness and flexural stiffness each made substantial independent contributions to the variation in sclerophylly indices, but the best individual explanators were flexural stiffness and strength.”
I Feel Earthquakes More Often Than They Happen Amy Wilentz 2006
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