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Subject I was thinking about ways to test structural rigidity
     
Posted by Janders on October 03, 2003 at 8:05 PM
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In Reply To Foam Update: The Engineers weigh in posted by z32ttvert on October 03, 2003 at 05:20 PM
     
Message with foam, as 'structural frequencies' aren't much use to anyone but engineers. For a car there should be a before and after test. Since track and skidpad's varying conditions(along ith driver error/ confidence) pretty much rule this out I was thinking of a simple 'jack' test where the car is placed up on four jacks-one on each wheel. Then two, opposing(example FrontR, RearL) are removed. Deflection and amount of drop could be measured at these corners with both an initial drop, and then after a few seconds(after all who cares how much a car flexes after a few seconds). Then repeat the process with the previously unsupported corners. With a stiffer frame torsional flex(measured amount of drop) should be much less than with stock/previous components.

     
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