A bend test is a procedure wherein the force is placed right at the middle of the test material to bend it. The test is usually performed in increasing increments of force until the object finally breaks. In comparison to a flexure test where the goal is to actually break the material, the main objective of doing the bend test is to see how much force is needed to bend a material to a certain shape. The test sample is placed in the machine in such a way that a concave object can be created out of it when a force at midpoint is applied. A specific radius of curvature is set, and the material is bent to that radius if possible by applying force.