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The word monocoque is a French term for "single shell". [1] First used for boats, [2] a true monocoque carries both tensile and compressive forces within the skin and can be recognised by the absence of a load-carrying internal frame. Few metal aircraft other than those with milled skins can strictly be regarded as pure monocoques, as they use ...
Reflecting the designer's aircraft engineering background, the Boa Type S is built with a riveted aluminum monocoque chassis. The structure is composed of front and rear torsion boxes and a center section made up of the sills, backbone tunnel, and floor. A steel roll cage is attached to the chassis. The bodywork is of fiberglass and is unstressed.
The LB744's monofuselage combines new and old carbon manufacturing processes to make one seriously stiff chassis. The Aventador Successor's Carbon Monocoque Is 10 Percent Lighter, 25 Percent ...
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 same in passenger cars like the BMW i3 .
Cabin integrity is in part due to Mitsubishi's RISE monocoque chassis design that provides a markedly stiffer frame and cabin structure over typical body on-frame (ladder-chassis) vehicles. [55] Monocoque / unibody chassis designs typically offer excellent roll over protection as a result, though this was not an officially measured feature of ...
To achieve superior performance, the car was built on a monocoque chassis, powered by a 377 ci all-aluminum SOHC V8 with Hilborn injection rated at 500 hp (370 kW). Some test results indicated it had a top speed of 210 mph (338 km/h), and 0-60 mph in 2.8 to 3.0 seconds.
The chassis is named after Dan Wheldon, who was the car's test driver, and who was killed at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on October 16, 2011, the final race of the previous IR-05. [14] The new front section is designed to prevent similar single-seater crashes such as the one that killed Wheldon. [ 15 ]
The prototype car is the first step to demonstrate what customers will experience on road and track. [4] It is not currently in a racing series but is built to satisfy relevant motorsport safety requirements, with crash structures and a carbon-fibre monocoque chassis with integral rollover protection. Its unique performance differentiator is ...