Original Posted By: "Jack Phillips"
Jack. You are correct. If I can remember correctly... (I do have CRSdisease you know) - a column's ability to carry compressive load isindirectly proportional to the square of a property of the beam called theslenderness ratio. The slenderness ratio is a factor arrived at bycomparing (ratio of) the length of the column to the width (not really thewidth -sort of - it's more complicated than this but for all practicalpurposes this will work) of the column. OK OK Enough!So basically the column can be "pinned" (or stabilized) at some point tostop the buckling action. This dramatically increases a column's ability totake cmpressive loads.That's what the jury strut does. It's pretty complicated in real columnloading. So if anybody's really bored or has insomnia, several books are outthere on column loading.I'm not a structural guy. This is the sum total of what I remember about acourse 25 years ago.Ok, my head hurts now.Back to the TV.Bert----- Original Message -----