As usual, I just love to see the iteration in the design and finally feel that more bars is bette
What about NODAL POINTS
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Everybody is talking about nodal point for cages. My understanding is that it is a good thing to regroup tubes into 'nodal points':
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instead of placing tube slightly at different places:
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For example bars coming from the rear suspension and going on top of the main hoop should merge on the opposite side as the bar going from main hoop to the A pilar.
Did you run some analysis on what difference it make to have one meeting 'nodal point' instead of 2 meeting points, like the one you have in your design. Not sure how you call your purple dots in your rendering ?
I would say that I have seen it both ways, and I am still unclear as to what perform better.
I would assume the force would transfer better with a point with symmetrical contacts (1 purple point), but then an asymmetric design (2 purple points) could allow some more distortion in between the 2 points and prevent tube sheer. (pure speculation on my end
I hope I am not confusing everybody