When a load pushes down on the beam, the beam's top edge is pushed together (compression) while the bottom edge is stretched (tension). Take a flat eraser or a small sponge and slice a shallow ...

The photograph illustrates the shape change of elements of a beam in bending. Note that the material is in compression on the inside of the curve and tension on the outside of the curve, and that ...

Olympic gymnast Suni Lee described the “pressure” and “tension in the room” after she fell from the balance beam at the Paris Olympics on August 5, according to CNN. “It was a lot of ...

The dynamics of viscoelastic beams and structures is a critical area ... For example, a novel method was proposed for real-time tension estimation in the spinning process of polyester filament ...