Strenghth of thin plastic sheets for bulkheads in space colonies

> > > Ah, is that so? Thanks for the correction. I'm not sure where I got
> > this impression -- I looked in "Space Settlements: A Design Study" but
> > this isn't treated in much depth. Do you have a good reference for the
> > relative loads?
> > Having trouble finding a cite for this. Looked in "High Frontier" and "Colonies > in Space" last night, and couldn't find anything. I'll keep looking. > > I don't know that what I read (and it was fairly early on in the history of this) gave > hard and fast numbers for the relative loads. I only remember it saying something > along the lines that the air pressure represented the lion's share of the total tensile load.