1.   This causes the beam to bend and the displacement is measured by means of a strain gauge or a differential transformer.

2.   A steel wall buckles as researchers from the University of Missouri and U.S. Army engineers videotape it and analyze it to see where the beams bend and give.

3.   By then, walls were cracking, beams were bending.

4.   The professors and engineers marveled at how each beam bent at a point slightly higher than the one next to it.

5.   The particles cause light beams to bend slightly, imparting a momentum that is enough to immobilize the particle.