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"Santosh" <santosh@student.unsw.edu.au> wrote in message
news:FuzGF3.43H@lugnet.com...
> I wonder If anyone has done any stress/strain measurements on Lego plates • and
> bricks under different tension and compression forces. Hmmm..too late for • me
> to start my final year thesis on that though, d'oh, maybe an excuse to do • a
> masters.
I've often thought of doing these sought of tests to determine the strength
of lego.
However, the thought of _deliberately breaking_ a piece of lego causes me to
'go fetal' for at least 20 mins. I'm scared to guess what would happen if I
should actually put one in a triaxial machine....
later,
David Drew.
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| In lugnet.loc.au, David Drew writes: (and into Loc.Au.Eng) A series of non-destructive tests perhaps? Wheres that Schmidt Hammer nowadays.. Actually Lets get some experiments to determines Lego's Plastic Limit (*boom*tish*)...perhaps you need to (...) (25 years ago, 22-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.people)
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| David Drew wrote in message ... (...) to (...) And you call yourself a Technic enthusiast?!? Pah!!! :-) I've broken at least two Technic beams building stuff that simply couldn't take the forces on the structure. Fallen in the line of duty, man!!! (...) (25 years ago, 23-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au)
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| Of course it can! Determine the eccentricity, whack a heap of them 2x4 bricks for compression and some of the technic beams with pin joints in for tensional strength. I wonder If anyone has done any stress/strain measurements on Lego plates and (...) (25 years ago, 22-May-00, to lugnet.loc.au, lugnet.people)
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