Ravikiran Rao
Sep 30th, 2004
Sep 30th, 2004
Stress Analysis of a strapless evening gown
How porcupines make love is of course a matter of scientific interest to me, but as an engineer-by-training, I am more interested in the problem of
how strapless gowns hold up.
Effective as the strapless evening gown is in attracting attention, it presents tremendous engineering problems to the structural engineer. He is faced with the problem of designing a dress which appears as if it will fall at any moment and yet actually stays up with some small factor of safety. Some of the problems faced by the engineer readily appear from the following structural analysis of strapless evening gowns.
I feel so enlightened by both ‘2004-A Porcupine Love story’ and ‘The Bosom Code’.