Originally Posted by
jsallen
You restate the main result of the analysis made by John Forester in 1980, see
https://cyclingsavvy.org//wp-content...ward-pull1.pdf, but you have neglected the slight increase everywhere but at the bottom of the wheel, as well as the much larger changes in spoke tension due to lateral and torque loads, described in Jobst Brandt's book The Bicycle Wheel, published a year later.
I neglected them because they are minor. Not minor loads in total, but minor because they are so distributed across so many many spokes.