| For that reason, I'm not going to make a sheet steel and foam sandwich to prove my point. I'm already confident enough that it would work, much the same way that appropriate use of very thin foil can make aluminum honeycomb so strong. Originally, I was just making a general statement which, it seems to me, should be intuitive: Adding material to a structure will make it stronger and stiffer. The degree to which it strengthens and stiffens a structure, is entirely dependent on the specifics of the system. The only time I would doubt this general statement is if the material you’re adding is very heavy relative to it’s own strength and the strength of the system. I've seen the results of this principle first hand. Take it or leave it...all the same to me. Without engaging in a discussion of the pertinence of tranverse shear strength, open/closed sections, bending modes and column buckling, I'll stop now. Further discussion of the source topic would require specific examples from the Z32 chassis and I've already disclaimed myself out of that topic ;)
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