The phrase "as a flexible element" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that can adapt or change in response to different conditions or requirements.
Example: "The design incorporates a variety of materials, using rubber as a flexible element to enhance durability and comfort."
Alternatives: "as an adaptable component" or "as a versatile part".
The crack is modelled as a flexible element, the flexibility calculations of which are based upon the laws of fracture mechanics.
For example, U.S. state governments formerly used the property tax as a flexible element, relying primarily on other taxes.
It rather suggests a role of kinesin-14 as a flexible element, pliantly sliding and crosslinking microtubules to facilitate remodeling of the mitotic spindle.
By the eighth century, the Japanese, who did not have permanent walls in their homes, had begun to adapt the Chinese screen as a flexible architectural element: wall-size panels slid open or closed to create rooms.
Some buildings, such as The Rookery and the Monadnock Building, combined elements of both the newer and older styles, but generally Chicago rapidly adopted steel structures as a flexible and effective way to produce a range of tall buildings.
As the best raconteurs do, Mr. Cutrone treated facts as flexible elements, although surprisingly often the tall tales he related turned out to have been true.
As shown in Fig. 5, A and B are the two nodes of the flexible element.
To this end we consider the rotor and nacelle as point masses and the WT tower as a flexible shaft that is divided into n elements with n + 1 nodes (see Figure 1).
Timbaland uses the singer's voice as a "flexible instrument to enhance his tech savvy soundscape", constructing "layers of production elements into towers of sonic force".
Combining elements of Flash and HTML5, the company touts Adscript as a flexible language familiar enough to Flash users but adaptable to new technologies as the industry continues to evolve.
For further tardigrade genome analysis we offer the tardigrade workbench as a flexible tool for rapid and efficient analysis of sequence similarity, protein function and clusters, COG membership and regulatory elements.
