Chassis Load Testing

agustins@uci.edu Project Learning, 2016-2017 Solar Car

According to regulations, we have to sustain a 5g load in all directions of the chassis. Here are pictures from our latest testing. We are currently experimenting with different pipe sizes to find the best compromise between strength and weight. Our chassis has a mirror feature that we did not anticipate on deviating our results. For the front crash, there is a stress concentration on the mirror feature. For our 5g load, we anticipate a 250 kg car without driver. For our future revisions, we are looking to reduce frontal area as well shifting our CG to as close to 50/50 with driver.