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A bending moment was used to produce flexion-extension and lateral bending by applying a vertical load to the eccentrically mounted specimen through the 10 cm lever arm.
The length of the lever arm from the axis of motion was 10 cm.
Day Lewis, in “How Poetry Began” (1944), wrote “To find this out, we'll have to jump into a Time Machine, put its gear lever into reverse, and race backwards through many thousands of years into prehistoric time.”
A preload of 50 N was applied to a lever arm of 40 cm from the fulcrum, in the opposite direction, at the bottom end of the specimen, as described by Chiba et al [ 6 ] . Two digital goniometers, placed at the junction of the loading frame and the lever arm, measured the angular displacement at the FSU with application of the bending moment.
Weight was measured with a lever balance, to the nearest 100 g, without shoes, in light undergarments.