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Originally Posted by RichardTS
Did someone say stiffness like tin foil?
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Now now. A thin sheet of metal may be weak in compression, but very strong in tension. For example, take a sheet of paper and hold it between your thumb and forefinger, with your left hand holding the top of the sheet and your right hand holding the bottom of the sheet.
Try to buckle or bend it - no problem at all.
Then try to pull it apart. See the difference in required effort?
While I presume the aforementioned bulkhead is not structural and simply serves to separate the cargo and passenger compartments, one must be careful not to delete something that also has a structural function.
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