Richard Brekne wrote: > While I got your ear, perhaps you might straighten me out on whats being > loaded how... I suppose the ribs restrictions loads the panel radially... > against the tangental face ??....even tho this is being done by restricting > the outward expansion of the radial face. But then downbearing... Ok that also > affects the stress between the ribs and underside of the panel, but isnt there > some tangential loading going on here as well ?... or is that just confusion > and all the loading is in the same direction ? > Sorry Richard you lost me. Care to rewrite this to make it easier for me? John Hartman RPT John Hartman Pianos [link redacted at request of site owner - Jul 25, 2015] Rebuilding Steinway and Mason & Hamlin Grand Pianos Since 1979 Piano Technicians Journal Journal Illustrator/Contributing Editor [link redacted at request of site owner - Jul 25, 2015]
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