Talk:Load transfer

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Hi, Regular.Stormy, good article. Only thing is I am not quite with you what a 'load transfer moment arm' is (5th para). Do you think you could make that a bit plainer for us simple folk? Thanks. Dieter Simon 00:18, 23 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[edit] What should this redistribution of normal force due to inertia be called?

I get about equal numbers of Google hits for "load transfer" and "weight transfer" but the first few for "weight transfer" are about car performance, while the first few for "load transfer" are not. So I suggest that this article be merged with "Weight transfer". We still need to say that the main effect is due to inertia but there is some secondary change in the center of gravity. "Load transfer" sounds a bit as though it meant the cargo (people, lugage and gasoline, in a car) shifting.

Anyway, we should keep trying to make it more quickly understandable to a larger readership because that will save lives. Whatever the effect is called, it does kill a lot of people each year. David R. Ingham 19:39, 18 February 2006 (UTC)

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