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I've never used it before, mainly just used flock for ground covering. Is static grass, if used in large patches, strong enough to hold a standard model on it, or would it cause it to bend/fold over? Thanks for any answers to this question.

Static grass isn't that rigid. What are you trying to do? It sounds kind of strange. You should add static grass after basing the model, by gluing it down on the base around the figure.

I was wanting to add it to terrain pieces as areas of grass taller than just plain flock. I was thinking about putting it into areas that a model might be placed so was questioning its strength to hold up a model without bending or folding.

Pretty sure he is talking about using it as a terrain material.

Static grass is a rayon fiber and it bends a lot. If it bends, it tends to go back straight after it has been bent.

The big issue with using static grass on terrain features isn't so much with it bending - rather with it getting rubbed or scraped off. In the best case scenario, your glue point is maybe a quarter millimeter of surface contact. Not much at all and difficult to get a good connection. This isn't a huge problem with figure bases, as not much is ever set on top of them - but with terrain which has figures, hands and the like pushed, scraped and otherwise abusing it...it can shed pretty fast.

That said - it can be durable. The same material which is used as static grass for gamers has been used to line storage boxes for a few decades now. Proper adhesives and techniques will get it stuck in place. To make that process a bit easier - you might want to look at static grass matts and clumps:

http://www.sceneryexpress.com/departments.asp?dept=1032

They are glued in place fairly well, so when it comes to attaching them to your terrain you have a larger single item to apply as opposed to a bunch of fine fibers.

After that, keep a big stick handy to smack anyone who scrapes their figures bases across your terrain.