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Macaulay’s Method A Strength of Materials term related to deflection; an analytical deflection method devised by W. H. Macaulay (1853–1936); a double integration method which uses the differential equation of flexure to find the deflection of a loaded beam under discontinuous loading conditions; the method uses a step function which formulates a single equation of moments for all the loads acting on a beam for which the constants of integration apply uniformly to all the sections of the beam.