| Re: Rim brake heat and spoke tension
Joe Riel writes:
> You [and I] are ignoring the bending stress in the rim due to the
> discrete spoke locations. Isn't that where the yield problem for
> the rim lies?
The rim fails in column buckling at the spoke holes from the
compressive load. the valve hole in some rims being the weakest
location. That's why the rim goes into a buckling "S" bend, being
constrained by the spokes from any single large lateral excursion as a
free standing column (pole vault pole) would.
Jobst Brandt
jobst.brandt@stanfordalumni.org
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