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Yeah, I don't know much about the auto industry. The basics of stiffness driven designs, though, I suspect would be the same. As would the desire for lower weig
by damoncali 12y ago
Yeah, I don't know much about the auto industry. The basics of stiffness driven designs, though, I suspect would be the same. As would the desire for lower weight. The obvious difference being that when we made a single satellite, material costs were negligible. When you make millions of cars, they're not. That said, there are probably quite a few steel parts in a car that are not stiffness driven, so that could be a big deal if this material works out.
- alricb 12y agoAs I understand it, at the macro level auto design is mostly stiffness-driven. But since they use stampings everywhere, strength matters since stronger materials can be made thinner without buckling (hence your roughly tubular section is stiffer for the same weight).