EvilC Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Wondering if anyone has done a stress test on the chassis of a 240z or a roll cage designed to be put in. My senior design project for school requires all these numbers and I have to model a cage to do test on it. Thanks guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drax240z Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Do a beam element test using a program like Algor. Very simple, and you don't have to model everything. Just enter the node coordinates, material properties and moments of inertia of your tubing and you are good to go. Race car vehicle dynamics has a good writeup on how to test a car's torsional rigidity through experimental means as well. Would be good to do both and correlate the results. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
katman Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 I crashed several with roll cages, does that count? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilC Posted October 1, 2005 Author Share Posted October 1, 2005 Hey if you have pics of your car wrecked with the roll cage in tact that would be great. Any suggestions on a cage? Car will be used for street mostly and every 2 weekends the strip. Also the car will have an Ls1 one day when the fees of books are finished. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jonus079 Posted October 3, 2005 Share Posted October 3, 2005 I crashed several with roll cages, does that count? lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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