Originally posted by E. Pocopagni
Thanks Jim,
if you find that URL once again I'll be pleased to learn something more about airplane structures calculations.
I'm on Mark side.
just to follow up Ben exemple (and it's truely my actual problem), if I oversize wing connector, I have to cut out a bigger hole in the root rib, thus weakening it.
In case of a overload break, I don't care much if the collapse happened in the tube or in the actual wing.
Effect is in all cases a crash.
Greetings.
Enrico
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Enrico, the rib isn't the structure that takes the bending load of the tube. The spars do that. The hole in the rib can be any size, just so long as the tube itself is supported in the wing.