Tension
Index Entry
Tension:
"... Tension members work towards arcs of greater radius but never completely straighten out. ... The tensions are not in a plane, anyway. Tension tends to do the big things in universe, do the big action, and compression is towards the little action. Furthermore, compression member has a limit ratio of length to section, we call it a slenderness ratio, it very readily busts because it is too long. ... But there is no limit of cross-section to length in a tension member, no inherent ratio. If you make a better alloy, you make it very much longer."
Citations
- LEDGEMONT, pp. 30-31, 15 Oct'64
