Jack Tingle schrieb:
>> On Jan 24, 4:06 pm, rbla...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>>> The only earthly materials that I believe could even measure up would
be
>>> carbon nanotubes (the magical material de jour), but even they might
not
>>> suffice for a creature of this size and performance.
> Or, since he's the height of a skyscraper, which is made from steel,
> maybe something like, I don't know, steel, would do? You could also make
> your armor from something like, well, steel.
You have to factor dynamic loads in, making that idea fall apart.
The building only has only to carry the load of its own weight plus a
bit of wind.
The creature also need to with the stresses of acceleration, adding two
bad aspects - not only are the loads about a magnitude higher, they are
also not downwards but wildly variable vectors, adding shearing forces
that need to be dealt with.
The concrete that takes the compression loads in a normal sky scrapers
would crack at the first step as its strength is very anisotrophic.
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