Assertion: body's force | /r/CapableOf | act normal
Facets:
value: to the cross-sectional area
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: This formalism includes pressure terms associated with forces that act normal to the cross-sectional area (the matrix diagonals of the tensor) as well as shear terms associated with forces that act parallel to the cross-sectional area (the off-diagonal elements).