inextensible's Usage Examples:

The principle of virtual work is specially convenient in the theory of frames (~ 6), since the reactions at smooth joints and the stresses in inextensible bars may be left out of account.

if some of the particles be constrained to lie on smooth surfaces, or if pairs of particles be connected by inextensible strings, then for each, geometrical relation thus introduced we have an unknown r~actien (e.

The statement may be extended to a system of rigid bodies, provided the mutual reactions consist of the stresses in inextensible links, or the pressures between smooth surfaces, or the reactions at rolling contacts (~ 9).

The case of inextensible strings or chains is, however, so simple that it is generally included in expositions of pure statics.

inextensible semiflexible filaments Tanniemola B.

Statics of inextensible chains.

Synonyms:

nonprotractile, nonextensile,

Antonyms:

protrusile, protractile, extensile,