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flexural

flexural

8.4
About how a material or object bends under force
  • adjective
  • /ˈflɛkʃərəl/
  • Specialized
: flexural
  • The engineer measured the flexural strength of the steel beam to ensure it could support the load.
  • flexural strength
  • flexural modulus
  • flexural toughness

So I wasn't doing the flexural motion that that activates your your shins.

Examples

  • Mechanical properties were investigated through compressive strength, splitting tensile strength, and flexural strength tests.

    Academic text (2017)

  • Fibers oriented in the longitudinal direction provide higher resistance to flexural loads.

    Academic text (2016)

  • The results showed reduced flexural strength as the size of the aggregate increased.

    Academic text (2016)

  • The vertical flexural cracks became far more prominent with the fiber addition.

    Academic text (2017)

  • As expected, specimen failure occurred due to the formation of the flexural plastic hinge in the beam.

    Academic text (2017)

  • The nature of starting a drum in motion produces great flexural and torsional stresses.

    Academic text (1995)

  • However, the first flexural crack at the column face widened substantially, and the plastic hinge remained in place.

    Academic text (2017)

  • To achieve this purpose, both shear failure mode specimens and flexural yielding mode specimens were tested. The results were compared.

    Academic text (2017)

  • The midspan displacement determined by the flexural wave theory is over-predicted for the Control beam.

    Academic text (2017)

  • The flexural failure of RC beams was initiated by the yielding of main rebars.

    Academic text (2018)

Antonyms

stiff
134 1.7

Not easy to bend or move

rigid
37 4.0

Does not bend because it is stiff

Surface Forms

flexural positive

Morphology

flexural = flexure (semi-transparent) = flex + ure + al

The adjective is formed regularly from the noun 'flexure' with '-al', giving the meaning 'relating to bending'.

Etymology

Flexural comes from the root flex-, the same root in flex and flexible, which means 'to bend'. So flexural describes how something bends or the bending strength of a material.