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Old 04-25-2013, 12:39 PM   #41
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Originally Posted by ATL BRZ View Post
I'm warming up to the fully reversible tow hook option. How are the extra long uprights going to deal with cross winds and lateral forces being applied to the wing element? Seems like it would need cross bracing between the uprights to keep the whole thing from moving left/right laterally.
The solution for the lateral force loading has not been decided yet. First I need to run a few CFD analyses with the car in yaw to find a maximum loading condition. Once the maximum loading condition is found we will run FEA on the uprights. From there we will come up with an engineering decision if it needs bracing and/or how much.
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