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MIng (Mechanical Engineering), North-West University, Potchefstroom Campus, 2014 The Formula SAE is a student based competition organised by SAE International where engineering students from a university design, develop and test a formula-style race car prototype to compete against [...]

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The increasing demand for energy efficient electric cars, in the automotive sector, entails the need for improvement of their structures, especially the chassis, because of its multifaceted role on the vehicle dynamic behaviour. The major criteria for the development of electric car [...]

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The present work presents a preliminary study on the development of a tubular chassis design for automotive industry manufactured with ultraviolet (UV) 3D pultrusion. The use of straight profiles for energy absorption elements and the advantages and feasibility of using curved [...]