>Not to belabor this point, but just to clarify for my own understanding >(because this point confuses me), if the ribsets support all the bearing >as if the panel wasn't there, how does the panel achieve the requisite >stiffness to do what it needs to do? > >David Love Because the panel is still stiff along the grain, it still has some, though a much lower level of compression, and it is part of an assembly. The responsibility for stiffness within the assembly has been shifted from the panel to the ribs in a RC&S board. Ron N
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