Originally Posted by
wroomwroomoops
There was a "Reply" to that article, published 2 years later, but my institution doesn't have access to that journal. Can you access it? Maybe there's some interesting counter argument.
Originally Posted by
wroomwroomoops
There was a "Reply" to that article, published 2 years later, but my institution doesn't have access to that journal. Can you access it? Maybe there's some interesting counter argument.
I might be able to, but to be honest I'm WAY too lazy to go through the motions. So instead, here's another one that's kind of cool:
http://www.rose-hulman.edu/~fine/FE2002/Projects/Hartz.pdf
Check out the exaggerated deformation and strain diagrams on pages 8 and 9 of the PDF. There's barely any tension increase in the top half of the wheel, but significant reduction at the bottom because of localized deformation.
I'm not really pushing the point, though. However you describe it, the wheel supports a load through a change in the net internal force, and a bottom spoke in compression is equivalent to one in reduced tension.