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Existing models are successful at improving control of individual arms but do not give insight into how the structure of the arm affects the arm\u2019s capabilities. For example, omnidirectional soft robot arms most frequently have three parallel actuators, but may have four or more, while common biological arms, including octopuses, have tens of distinct longitudinal muscle bundles. This article presents a quasi-static analytical model of soft arms bent with longitudinal actuators, based on equilibrium principles and assuming an unknown neutral axis location. The model is presented as a generalizable framework and specifically implemented for an arm with [Formula: see text] fluid-driven actuators, a subset of which are pressurized to induce a bend with a certain curvature and direction. The presented implementation is validated experimentally using planar (2D) and spatial (3D) bends. 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