0 a long bar that is fixed at only one end to a vertical support and is used to hold a structure such as an arch, bridge, or shelf in position:
a cantilever bridge
By following the cantilever displacements as the cells migrated over these cantilevers, they determined the distribution of tension exerted by the cells on the substrate.
A laser beam is directed at the reflective, upper surface of the cantilever, and the deflected light detected by a four-quadrant photo-detector.
The motion is monitored now by a laser beam, which is reflected onto a split diode from the cantilever holding the sensor tip.
The position of the cantilever is monitored by the deflection of a detecting laser.
Large deformations of cantilever beams, that are subject to distributed loadings can be solved by using pseudolinear equivalent systems.
The spatial mode function can be selected freely using, for example, a cantilever mode8 (clamped-free) function as is done in this work.
During a third mode of operation, 'force-distance measurement', the cantilever is slowly lowered towards the surface and its deflection is constantly recorded.
Its main deformation was a bending vibration similar to the third mode of a cantilever beam.
