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Monocoque (/ ˈ m ɒ n ə k ɒ k,-k oʊ k / MON-ə-ko(h)k), also called structural skin, is a structural system in which loads are supported by an object's external skin, in a manner similar to an egg shell.
Carbon-fiber monocoque design has been commonly used in racing cars since the 1980s, like Formula racing and Le Mans series prototypes. The first production car with carbon-fiber monocoque design was the MCA Centenaire. Now many modern sports cars have carbon-fiber monocoque cells, and some big car manufacturers have also started applying the ...
There is some overlap between monocoque, semi-monocoque (stressed skin), and rigid frame structures, depending on the proportion of the structural rigidity contributed by the skin. In a monocoque design, the skin assumes all or most of the stress and the structure has fewer discrete framing elements, sometimes including only longitudinal or ...
The cockpit is a stiff monocoque of "Supral" alloy, but aft of the cockpit bulkhead, the ARV is conventionally built, with frames, longerons and stressed skin forming a semi-monocoque. [ 4 ] Peter Williams ' 1973 Formula 750 TT -winning John Player Norton racer was an early example of a semi-monocoque motorcycle.
The car was quite spacious due to its semi-monocoque design which was quite an advancement in the early 1950s in vehicle engineering. The car was designed by Alec Issigonis among whose other designs were the Mini and Morris Minor.
The Deperdussin Monocoque was a mid-wing monoplane with parallel-chord wings with the spars made of hickory and ash, and ribs made of pine.The fuselage was made in two halves, each made by glueing and pinned a layer of tulip wood to a framework of hickory supported by a former, and then applying two further layers of tulipwood, the thickness of the shell being around 4 mm (5 ⁄ 32 in). [5]
The LB744's monofuselage combines new and old carbon manufacturing processes to make one seriously stiff chassis.
The Lotus 25 was a racing car designed by Colin Chapman for the 1962 Formula One season. [1] [2] It was a revolutionary design, the first fully stressed monocoque chassis to appear in Formula One.