Old 29-10-2013, 11:31 AM
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Yes impact would fair pretty well. however, i am engineering crush/crash structures into the design. Eg alloy honeycomb is commonly used as impact attenuators in composite cars as well as most of the crash test "impact blocks" are honeycomb to simulate impacting with a car that deforms (rather than an immobile concrete block). So plenty of data available to determine a good crash box design. The sills, pillars, rear panel and front chassis legs will all be crash structures. They are also bonded on seperatly to the main chassis structure thus replaceable in light impacts. Dont want to get punted in the rear by some cunt at the lights and it be written off for a minor bump