|   |  |  | Re: My Pictures From Brickfest Rob Doucette 
 |   |  |  | (...) I'm guessing the members would delaminate (the plates capping the double beams would separate) especially if the loading is cyclical. I still think a long column will describe the behaviour more so than a truss because of the length. I don't (...)   (23 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics) 
 |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | Re: My Pictures From Brickfest Thomas Avery 
 |  |  |  |  |  | (...) You're comparing apples to oranges here. Within a truss, you will have members in compression. Column analysis (i.e. Euler buckling, and the like) can be applied to those memebers. To say that it behaves more like a slender column than a truss (...)   (23 years ago, 26-Jul-02, to lugnet.robotics) 
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