Pictures you didn't take

glatt · 02-24-2012, 09:31 AM

I'm no mechanical engineer, but I think there's some tensegrity action going on, where even the horizontal spokes are helping to support the weight of the car by holding the rim in a circular shape so the forces can be transferred down to the ground.

Maybe tensegrity is the wrong word to describe it, but it's a similar phenomenon, where all the parts of the system work together.

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02-24-2012, 09:31 AM	#11
glatt ™ Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Arlington, VA Posts: 27,717	I'm no mechanical engineer, but I think there's some tensegrity action going on, where even the horizontal spokes are helping to support the weight of the car by holding the rim in a circular shape so the forces can be transferred down to the ground. Maybe tensegrity is the wrong word to describe it, but it's a similar phenomenon, where all the parts of the system work together.

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