Wouldn't the fact that the tenon is initially round qualify it as an "amazing structure"?jemtheflute wrote: @ George - I may only just have begun to get a handle on this myself, but you are misunderstanding the physics involved.... and yes, a pint glass is also an "amazing structure" in the same sense - it is a cylinder or close thereto - as it tapers, just as an egg is an awkward shape, doing an effective snug or tight whipping may be tricky given a tendency for the thread to slip off - not a problem on a true cylinder... Crushing anything round is mechanically very difficult, especially if you apply pressure evenly all around the circumference. Do you understand how an arch bears a load? A ring or cylinder is like a never-ending arch, transferring and sharing any load around itself. Its strength is limited by properties of the material it is made from and its own dimensions (diameter, wall thickness) in relation to those.
With the "arch load" distributing the tension across the load, instead of multiplying the tension by 2pi shouldn't it be divided by pi (or 2pi)?
On another thought it sounds like some people are saying stacked threads multiply the pressure. Wouldn't that only be added, if not only adding a factor of?
Can somebody get or build a gauge that can measure a internal pressure? I was thinking something like
(O) where the () represent pressure plates and the O is the spring gauge (bar/psi).