Re: Re: Determining balsa stiffness

From: Don Slusarczyk <don5490_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 22:18:38 -0500

markdrela wrote:

> --- In Indoor_Construction_at_yahoogroups.com, Kurt Krempetz
> <krempetz_at_y...> wrote:
> >
> > I believe the method they are using to determine
> > stiffness or actually modulus of elasticity of the
> > balsa wood is to find out at what load buckling
> > occurs.
>
> Ah, that's another way to do it.
>
> One possible problem with this buckling-load method is that the test

Generally you bend it in one direction then again in the other and
average it.

Don
Received on Fri Jan 13 2006 - 19:18:41 CET