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In article <1161658041.825967.169130@i42g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
budcun@msn.com wrote:
> Dan_Thomas_nospam@yahoo.com wrote:
> >
> > Semi-Monocoque is the term, not "complimentary."
>
> Whatever. My professor in graduate school (a Stanford Ph.D.) called it
> complimentary, since the stringers and longerons compliment the skin in
> that, as I said, they provide strength in a direction that the skin
> does not have, which is out of plane stiffness. Since a true Mono
> (meaning a single) coque (shell) structure has only a shell for
> structure (an egg is a perfect example), any deviation from this is
> often called semi-monocoque, even when the skin carries no load, which
> is an incorrect way of describing such a structure.
You mean "complementary," meaning "completes the function," not
"complimentary," as in "offerimg compliments."
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Re: Why no plywood monocoque homebuilts?
