From: "Dwight K. Elvey" 
To: atm{at}shore.net
Reply-To: "Dwight K. Elvey" 


>From: "Tom Krajci" 
>
>
>From: Ross Sackett 
>
>>Oh, ugh.  Both cells look a little nightmarish to me,
>>especially the one with the long springy outer
>>triangles.
>
>That's why I asked for feedback and comments.  ;-)  Yes, the skinny
>triangle idea is not good for more than one reason (Nils mentioned
>another reason).  I've since updated more info and diagrams to my page
>at:
>http://overton.tamu.edu/aset/krajci/cell-12-pt/cell-12-pt.htm
>

Hi
 No one said you had to make the long springy thing.
The actual support triangle can even be a circle of metal with the three
points. Maybe a natural extention of plop would be an analysis of different
beam and triangle support pieces.
Dwight

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