Ron, Could you give me a little more explanation of this? By loading the outside of the curve, in the case of a piano rib, do you mean a load that would be pushing the rib down (such as typical string loading)? Why would the feathering make the rib more likely to split from loading one way than the other? Phil F At 07:45 PM 5/14/03 , you wrote: >>For the radii of curvature and the cross sectional dimensions of typical >>piano ribs, I would expect this effect to be fairly slight. >> >>Phil F > >The next major factor being the feathering, causing the beam to be more >likely to split from loading the outside of the curve than from loading >the inside. Lamination, on average, should be no different from solid here >either. > >Ron N
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