Thanks intelligent.
Then I would accept the analogies.
I was also trying to remember my histology (=microscopic anatomy) courses and I can say that there are struts in muscles and tendons as well. Apparently, evolution came up with this principle and uses it wherever appropriate.
Technology does the same (light construction technology).
In medieval times, in germany, houses were constructed in that same way (my online dictionary (dict.leo.org) tells me that this type of construction is called a ‘timbered’ or a ‘half-timbered’ house (no idea what the defference between fully or half timbered might be,the relevance regarding our topic is marginal anyhow :)