Thread: Spoke pattern
View Single Post
Old 03-16-10 | 09:49 AM
  #72  
Yan's Avatar
Yan
Senior Member
Titanium Club Membership
20 Anniversary
Community Builder
 
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 3,655
Likes: 1,678
Originally Posted by rydaddy
Apples and oranges my friend.
Absolutely not. The only difference is that in the spoked wheel, the stabilizing force is being applied via tension from within, where as in the example I provided, the force is exerted by compression from the outside. The direction of said forces are the same and the mechanism of load transfer is identical.
Yan is offline  
Reply