Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being inextensible.
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- noun The condition of being
inextensible
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Examples
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But we question the propriety of classing a string among strictly mechanical devices; it has its uses, to be sure, but in respect to perfect flexibility and inextensibility it cannot be relied on when rigid accuracy is required in drawing any of the conic sections.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various
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Thus we see that the resistance of a beam to a cross strain, as well as to tension and compression, is affected by the incompressibility and inextensibility of the material.
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Nevertheless it is possible under certain assumptions, one is the inextensibility of the rod, to show that this tangent expressed in term of the arc-length of the undeformed configuration is unitary.
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In what you're doing assuming inextensibility you can parametrize your rod by the same arc length in both the reference and current configurations.
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