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:

    “Even crushed against his brother in the Tube the average Englishman pretends desperately that he is alone.”
    —Germaine Greer (b. 1939)

    “I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis; and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy.”
    —Isaac Newton (1642–1727)