Tube Frame

Tube frame may refer to:

  • Tube (structure), a structure designed to act like a three-dimensional hollow tube so to resist lateral loads
  • Space frame or space structure, a truss-like, lightweight rigid structure constructed from interlocking struts in a geometric pattern
  • Superleggera, sometimes referred to as a tube-frame structure

Famous quotes containing the words tube and/or frame:

    The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie “answers” questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.
    Gore Vidal (b. 1925)

    In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state, our hearths, our sepulchres, and our altars.
    Edmund Burke (1729–1797)