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Dino Frey's Weblog 
Welcome, Dino!
I gather you have suggested that sauropods might have had air bladders stacked under their necks to help provide support. I got there by wondering how to get the cervical ribs into tension, and contemplating the empty space behind/below omeisaurus’s skull. How did you come to it? If it’s right, a finite-element analysis of a deeply pneumatic cervical vertebra should show it had to have been in tension too.
Hi Nathan,
Daniela Schwarz and I modelled a possible sytstem of air sacks as a part of a pneumatic system in the neck of sauropods. We hypothesised, wether or not an pneumatic support of a segmented chain beam would be possible and constructed a simple model and it worked. With an overlapping system of cervical ribs as a compressive system further bracing mechanisms are not necessary. For the studies, Daniela provided hi res CAT scans which would work as a digigtal base for ANSYS and ABACUS. We will probably go for this.