Recent content by Freefall

If you are struggling at 100 efficiency, the thing is either WAY overbuilt or you arent using good wood or something like that. Tell me about your boomi and maybe I can help you get on the right track. What I have done with my boomi is virtually eliminate the need for vertical trusses by...

Tried as in it didnt work? Laminating makes the structure both stronger and lighter, give it a shot.

Have you laminated your wood? It will be hard to get 1500 effiency without doing that first.

The science olympiad refers to it as a chord, but member is probably more accurate. Putting semantics aside, is one cross section inherently better at handling tension and or compression? Like an I-beam or what? Maybe the member just needs to be the full 1/4" in the direction it needs to...

Everything has to be made out of wood and glue. The weight must be held 40 cm from the wall, so that is why the compression chords are perpendicular to the wall, and not the tension, because tension doesn't increase with length. I think that I decided that I will have two tension chords, I...

Hey, first post! I happened upon this forum and after about ten seconds of perusing topic titles, decided this forum was definitely for me! Here is my question. What type of cross section would a beam need to be the most efficient at handling 1) tension and 2) compression. I am working on...