Re: [math-fun] mechanical engineering sanity check

I know rwg has a practical engineering concern here, viz

http://www.flickr.com/photos/thane/113588315/ Interestingly, I noticed no cracking after triple-loading the 2/5 scale (leggy, snap-together) model, but today found it plastically deformed just enough to partially unsnap during normal load. (It is, in fact, half the scale of the one shown in Thane's photo.) A dab of glue under the tab and no one will be the wiser. But acrylic is normally brittle, not plastic. Weird. --rwg Well-disordered (no digraphs preserved): DELUSIONAL ANDOUILLES, RHODESIAN IRONHEADS, DANGEROUS NOSEGUARD, BALSAMINE LIMABEANS, But sadly not STRAINED-PEAS PERSIAN-DATES nor MOUNTAINEER ENUMERATION