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Originally Posted by Zedn
Great post Baz, will be helpful to new builders.
I question the commercial viability or need for kit manufacturers to conduct all the destructive testing. I dont feel this would improve the safety of the vehicles and the cost of this testing would take many kits sold to recover. To complete all testing would likely cost the manufacturer $50-$100k by the time you include cost of building several chassis and components for testing.
FEA can provide results that are accurate enough for the risk to be managed with a factor of safety.
How many high rise buildings are built and demolished to check if they will fall down in the event of wind loading or eathquake? These contain much more occupants than a car  |
G'day all,
I have been in conversation with a local distributor to do FEA of their chassis for seat and belt mounts, such that they can offer this information to their customers on purchase.
The advantage of this is that they will save their customers considerable heart ache when the signatory inspects the chassis. This works as a sales point for this manufacturer as they offer a high quality kit; part of the proof of the quality is a decreased cost for engineering.
Cheers,
Treeve