Structural Engineering & Statics
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Section shape — the series

One essay so far on this idea, and more questions about it than one essay answers.
  1. The same material, four ways. Four cross-sections of identical area, so identical weight and cost, with the second moment of area computed from each profile's own geometry. Only the arrangement differs, and the stiffest is many times the flattest.

    The same steel in a different shape, and a factor of forty

    Four sections of identical area, identical weight and identical cost. The stiffest is dozens of times the stiffest of the flattest, and the only thing that changed was the arrangement.

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