Originally Posted by
canam73
Carbon and AL are very different materials with different structural properties. If you made your carbon rims flimsy enough to give in this way you would open up a whole new book of durability issues.
Clearly the balance. Carbon has much higher yield and modulus compared to Al...and if deriving same force/deflection, by using lower modulus carbon and with reduced wall section...elongation to yield maybe unacceptable.