Carbon gone bonkers!

[Azonic]

This has been posted on the Hub a zillion times. Are these two really so different?

 

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[Bruce B.]

monocoque refers as much to the manufacturing process as to the design concept. in saying that, most carbon bikes are a hybrid, using tubes to save on material, but monocoque theory to intergrate the different elements. those massive sections at the joints are used to transfer load between different tubes just like in the skin of a full monocoque design.

 

and to kick the other argument around, a standard frame is a 2D space frame, more comonly known as a truss...

[Johan Bornman]

This has been posted on the Hub a zillion times. Are these two really so different?

 

 

I am so sorry for wasting electrons.

 

I think the chap that made the BME is quite interesting. His website tells us a little bit about how he did it, why he did it and how long it took him. If you look at the close-ups, you'll see that he is an incredible craftsman, if a little mad. But then again, without mad craftsmen we would not have had Faberge eggs, the Michealangelo ceilings, Stradivarius violins, the Spruce Goose, the Eiffel Tower, baroque music, guitar solos, names painted on grains of rice or beautiful chocolate sculptures.

 

 

[HomerSimpson]

Rule of thumb with composites design is:  avoid sharp changes of direction/acute angles.....too many stress concentration points!