Re: [ATM] Thermal Mass - WAS Tees instead of triangles

["Richard F.L.R. Snashall" <rflrs@rcn.com>]

Vladimir Galogaza wrote:

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>>A cellular blank is not only less massive and cools
>>much faster; it ends up being much stiffer than and equally thick and solid
>>blank.
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>Intuitively I can not believe this stiffness statement. Perhaps  stiffness
>to mass (weight) ratio
>but stiffness alone?
>In my mental picture I imagine cellular blank which has certain stiffness
>than start filling
>its voids with material. That should gradually decrease overall stiffness if
>the end stiffness
> is to be lower than starting one. How come? Enlighten me please. Thanks in
>advance.
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>Vladimir.
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My first impression was to question this too... then I thought about
the fact that this blank doesn't have to carry its own weight.
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