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    Brace yourself

    Mar 05, 2021 5 minutes
    By MARK ORTIZ

    Q I’ve had this ‘problem’ on my mind for about a week now and have sent it to several engineering buddies of mine for consideration, but I’d like to know what you think.

    This is a deflection mitigation problem. Consider only the ‘planar’ effects on the two chord members, nothing out of the plane that combines for torsion etc. I will use ‘superposition’ for other loads and ‘out of plane’ effects.

    First of all, by far the biggest load of all (by a long shot) is acting upwards (plus x) at the end of the coilover shock. The other loads in x, y and z, at or near this, are small in comparison.

    When the car is static on the ground, the plus x force is straight up, and is approximately

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