biaxial
biaxial
Definition
bi·ax·ial (bī ak′sē əl)
adjective
- having two axes a biaxial joint
- designating a monoclinic, orthorhombic, or triclinic crystal that does not have birefringence along two axes
bi·ax′i·ally adverb
biaxial
Usage Examples
Modifies a noun
- loading: Biaxial loading of the mirrors is achieved by a combination of a uniform applied pressure and rectangular boundary conditions.
- compression: Estimation of the local buckling stress under biaxial compression of an isotropic skin with fiber reinforced integral unflanged stiffeners.
- strain: Sheet wide enough to be clamped on all edges undergoes balanced biaxial tensile strain over the center of the punch.
- tension: This will be done for both uniaxial and biaxial tension later in the tutorial.
- load: The relation between strain or stress and the Raman frequency tends to be linear under uniaxial and biaxial loads.
- phase: This has shown that the biaxial nematic phase claimed to be formed by certain compounds is, in fact, uniaxial.
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