Scaling Up for Giants
Scaling Up for Giants
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Thought some engineering analysis would be appropriate for this article. Basically, if you scale a structure up (and its associated loads), by what factor would you need to increase all dimensions? In this article the author has checked compression on the leg of a chair. What do you guys think? What about bending? If not a linear scale, then what?
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/big-person-on-a-big-chair/
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/big-person-on-a-big-chair/






RE: Scaling Up for Giants
"Structural engineering is the art of modelling materials we do not wholly understand into shapes we cannot..."...ah...screw it, we don't know what the heck we are doing.
RE: Scaling Up for Giants
Like an elephant - if you double its size in 2-D you most certainly more than double its weight in 3-D
RE: Scaling Up for Giants
Now, consider my legs, they would also be increased by a greater margin if they were to carry my body.....and the lower part of my body...
Michael.
Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.
RE: Scaling Up for Giants
RE: Scaling Up for Giants
Michael.
Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a rain dance.