An age-old Dream

Bending Pencil  

Most materials have the potential to fail in both tension or compression, because...

 

...as a practical matter, tension and compression are inseparable.

Pencil Demonstrating
Compression  

Most materials have the potential to fail in one or the other, depending on the circumstances of loading.

Given this...

 

 

a
major
practical improvement
would be a technology which causes materials to carry load always to the limit of their individual

MAXIMUM STRENGTH

irrespective of the
circumstances of loading.

 

 Chart of Compression and Tension
showing Maximum Strength
 

MAXIMUM STRENGTH necessarily would involve a mix of compression and tension.

So, the greatest practical strength of any material must be its
MAXIMUM STRENGTH.


Pencils on Fulcrums
  To achieve this major practical advancement would require a technology for minimizing tension and preventing it from concentrating in a structure, especially when the structure is susceptible to leverage.


This is a dream of course.

The technology to achieve such a practical advancement has been an unreachable dream for thousands of years. It still would be today, except

 

 

Engineer exerting force on a horizontal
pencil on two fulcri
 


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