On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 11:39:34 GMT, Tony Bryer
wrote:

In article , Andy Hall
wrote:
Are you sure about that? Granite is not going to flex at all, so
fixing it with an adhesive that has no give to something that might
but shouldn't doesn't seem intuitively right to me.

If it doesn't flex at all then the steel is redundant as it must
deflect by some (minuscule) amount if it is carrying a proportion of
the load. If the granite just bears on the steel you'll have a load
sharing situation. If you fix the steel to the granite with epoxy or
whatever and put weight on the granite it will be in compression and
the steel in tension like a RC beam.

Makes sense. Since the steel, I would have thought would flex rather
more than the granite, I would expect that the granite would crack.
Unless I've missed something?



..andy

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