What Actually Is A Monocoque Chassis?

What Actually Is A Monocoque Chassis? | Carfection 4K

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5 жыл бұрын

We’ve all heard of a monocoque chassis but what actually is it and which cars have one? Alex Goy explains.
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From aircrafts to cars, monocoques serve an important role in a vehicle’s structural rigidity. Many car manufactures implement this unibody construction, including McLaren, Lotus, Lancia, Bugatti, Mercedes-Benz and more. Often made from carbon fiber, these light-weight, high-strength support structures are found in dozens of production sports cars.
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@jaymorris3468 5 жыл бұрын

It could have been so much easier to explain if you overlaid diagrams. I still have no idea what a mono passenger cell is not what it looks like. A comparison between the most basic ways of building cars in diagram form would have been much better to a layman like myself.

@MalcomMcLeod 5 жыл бұрын

Exactly would of been better to show more pictures of the actual monocoque.

@marvinjgerald6007 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, this generation simply talks too much, without anything to show for it.

@prasadindi7299 3 жыл бұрын

This is much better explanation: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/f86Si7OrtdLefn0.html&ab_channel=EngineeringExplained

@jaymorris3468 3 жыл бұрын

@@prasadindi7299 Thank You Prasad. 👍

@thefastissue 5 жыл бұрын

Alex - Excellent at describing technicalities. Henry - Makes Great emotive car "movies". Drew - Wears grouse turtlenecks.

@CITRUS-- 5 жыл бұрын

so you yammer on for 6 minutes about the history of the mono🐓 and drive around in a mclaren that has a mono🐓.... but we never actually see one?? not even a diagram overlay to show how the car is built around the chassis. ok

@catlee8064 5 жыл бұрын

Now that is a stunning colour on the 720S!!!

@ziggyfreud5357 5 жыл бұрын

Can't fit much into 6 minutes so I suppose that my expectations were a little high. Ok vid but a bit more detail would have been nice. Good idea to have a few more tech type episodes. :)

@benhook1850 5 жыл бұрын

I’ll never get that 6 minutes back

@Elias_g1 5 жыл бұрын

If you knew already why did you watch it ?

@maazahmed9010 3 жыл бұрын

💯

@maazahmed9010 3 жыл бұрын

@@Elias_g1 we didn't know that the video wouldnt have diagrams to show all the Engineering.

@dawoodkashif4482 5 жыл бұрын

Holy shit I had to write about three features of my car design in tech class yesterday that were unique and I wrote monocoque as one of them not knowing what it is and then this is uploaded today😆

@NM-jj5hl 5 жыл бұрын

ALEX IS BACK!!!!

@Sodacake 5 жыл бұрын

Wait -- I'm confused. I thought Alex left Carfection? Glad to see him back!

@elmuerko 5 жыл бұрын

Caffeine & Machine spotted 👍

@rjrfletcher2355 5 жыл бұрын

Pretty hard to miss !!!

@Youtubedotcomma 5 жыл бұрын

Iv got a monocock

@arthurdent1694 5 жыл бұрын

I see you are a man of culture.

@carloscrack3 3 жыл бұрын

I salute you

@user-yj2su3gv1m 5 жыл бұрын

Just miss Alex hell. Thank you!

@GetUpFalcon 5 жыл бұрын

Ah seems rather complicated? Frame/chassis = serves a structural purpose. Supports the components bolted to it. Rigidity contributes to safety. Body = serves a practicality purpose as well as safety. Monocoque combines the two into one piece. ‘Monocoque combines chassis and frame’ doesn’t make sense to me.

@desmo750f1 5 жыл бұрын

GetUpFalcon Frame is rarely used to mean chassis in the UK. For example, a Morgan has a steel chassis and a wooden frame, to which the body panels are fixed.

@111111guru 5 жыл бұрын

They need to make a mini series explaining technical bits like this one

@SuperDodoe 5 жыл бұрын

Great Job Alex!

@srinitaaigaura 5 жыл бұрын

The 720S looks sensational in that blue.

@warwombat_ Жыл бұрын

As someone who owns one for my get around town do errands car. The carbon fiber monocoque gives it a really cool feature, and people always ask me about it whenever I’m out and about.

@ZenGamer97 5 жыл бұрын

he’s back

@dracorpgroup 3 ай бұрын

Not being an engineer I do remember reading years ago, actually decades ago, vaguely that in aircraft industry design during the Second World War the term 'monocoque' was used when a flat steel sheet was 'stretched' or put under tension and then stamped to produce the part. The idea was that this increased the strength of the stamped part. Does anyone know if this is correct, or does the term simply refer to a type of unibody, stamped or otherwise? Thanks.

@tawaabgouhar1190 5 жыл бұрын

Oh shit, he’s back!

@PMichaelG 5 жыл бұрын

One of the better car shows out there..

@RegalState 5 жыл бұрын

Carfection on a Friday? Sorted

@lovenowandalways1 5 жыл бұрын

Alex back😍😍😍

@Rodrigoxki 5 жыл бұрын

stunning spec!

@RSZ-R34 5 жыл бұрын

loving the spec on this McLaren 🔥🔥🔥

@dnltbrca 5 жыл бұрын

My grandma's pen has 12 hens and one rooster. It's a monocock

@sunnylt 2 жыл бұрын

What is the name of the design of coat wore by this guy?

@VPB1970 6 ай бұрын

The BMW i3 is a wonder of modern times! Love mine

@quintinkrivacek9800 5 жыл бұрын

I love using the word monocoque in a conversation with someone that isn't into cars

@Kevin-sy8uf 5 жыл бұрын

Here we go again *unzip*

@austinwallick8744 5 жыл бұрын

“The woeful Alfa Romeo” and “the brilliant BMW i3” There’s that famous British humor

@Sandouras 5 жыл бұрын

You didn’t really explain the difference between a monocoque and a normal car frame. I still have no idea what it is. A normal car frame is also a cell that protects its passengers.

5 жыл бұрын

In a monocoque the body is the chassis like an egg. The Mclaren has a cell which is referred to as a monocoque without really being one.

@guydudley9705 5 жыл бұрын

Love the idea of theory based videos carfection... you could do “how a v6 works”, “electric car practicality” or “how a LSD stops you from crashing” But please work on your visuals.... give us strip downs, overlays and diagrams. 👌🏼

@BrettBaker 3 жыл бұрын

"What Actually Is A Monocoque Chassis?" Well if you want an actual answer to that question, you won't find it in this video.

@stubones 5 жыл бұрын

So much potential innuendo 😂

@jerryldavis1823 5 жыл бұрын

Baldy is back

@19chucki74 5 жыл бұрын

One of the things I LOVE about automotive engineering. Designing these cells, each one unique, to keep weight down, center of gravity, and keep the driver and passengers safe. Reasons why I love to sketch and design vehicles. Thanks Alex.

@andrewgibbs5096 5 жыл бұрын

Clear as mud!

@melonsenpai7407 5 жыл бұрын

wait a minute, the 4c was woeful but the i3 is brilliant?

@edson_araujo 5 жыл бұрын

Melon Senpai it’s sarcasm

@D.a.m.i Жыл бұрын

who else doesn't know what a monocoque is after this video?

@ssemwangaremmy7998 2 жыл бұрын

I wish you could use well detailed illustrated videos like those of animagraffs...... good and well understand if In well laid out graphics.

@msbarrie8275 4 жыл бұрын

I like the idea but you did not gave us enough info and you did not talked about one of the key why monoccoque is use forthat is lightness.

@sadsismint 5 жыл бұрын

OMG he's at C&M!

@shadowraith1 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks.

@ozzstars_cars 5 жыл бұрын

Other monocoque designs were the 1954-1957 Jaguar D type and the 1964-1969 Ford GT40. Ask me how I know.

@yallway2262 5 жыл бұрын

Nsx aluminum monocoque dont know how Honda was selling for the asking price

@PeterM0911 5 жыл бұрын

I've never heard about monocock. :D

@ThomasMichaelTX 5 жыл бұрын

Cool

@Twobarpsi 5 жыл бұрын

A monocoque is one coque!

@Dashport-ih7ww 5 жыл бұрын

You all should have first told about the difference between a ladder frame and a monocoque chassis, then it would have been much easier to understand...................!

@bend92 5 жыл бұрын

I think I must have misheard when you said "woeful" Alfa 4c and "brilliant" BMW i3.

@mbal4052 5 жыл бұрын

The McLaren 720s is ageing really well, it looks amazing

@halabi97 5 жыл бұрын

It's 2 years old....

@mbal4052 5 жыл бұрын

@@halabi97 yes and its looking better as time goes on..remember the furore when it was first revealed now it's getting more appreciation..I sign of great design. Some Ferraris of late have dated very quick

@DigitalDissident 5 жыл бұрын

What is a monocoque: Something that requires a small loan of a million dollars.

@y2ksierra 5 жыл бұрын

̈ ̈ get an i3 and get one for peanuts.

@DigitalDissident 5 жыл бұрын

@@y2ksierra unfortunately too ugly on the outside.

@JamesCairney 5 жыл бұрын

I probably do have the time, to be honest, probably

@arjun_edits143 3 жыл бұрын

I was more tempted towards looking at the car.....

@Trendyflute 5 жыл бұрын

"It's going to create physics." Quick, drive your McLaren, or else gravity will stop working and we'll fall off the Earth! :P

@GursimranReehal 3 жыл бұрын

This is the video made by McLaren you should watch instead: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gdCZg5uosLy8qZc.html

@j_igbo_404 3 жыл бұрын

get right with JESUS guys have a dope day

@ImBarryScottCSS 5 жыл бұрын

5:14 SPICY

@adamsilesia5753 4 жыл бұрын

Something on the car needs to be stiff. In some cars the stiff thing is the chassis.

@unexplainedwearenotalone3537 5 жыл бұрын

Monocoque and Audi use.

@ubacow7109 4 жыл бұрын

idk if i wud call the i3 "brilliant"

@tighthams 5 жыл бұрын

My favorite is the Alfa Romeo 4C. Did you really say "woeful?" I think you said "wonderful," but it sure sounded like "woeful," which would not make any sense at all. Collar on your jacket won't stay down? That is woeful. I think you should give credit to Wikipedia as your source (e.g., eggshell, boats, airplanes, Lotus 25, McLaren MP4/1).

@David-ud9ju 5 жыл бұрын

Sure sounded like woeful. It is an Alfa though, so it is woeful.

@donaldasayers 5 жыл бұрын

Hmm. Yes and no. Even the McLaren "monocoque" has box sections that form a frame like structure and airplanes that have stressed skin construction have a framework of ribs and stringers to help the skin resist buckling. Then take a typical frame structure like the chassis of a Lotus 7 or a bicycle, their frames are made of thin wall stressed skin tubes that are mini monocoques. The only pure monocoque I can think of is an egg and the only true space frame is an electricity pylon, everything else is a mixture and a compromise. To argue that a steel saloon car is not a true momocoque but a McLaren is is silly and pointless.

@djmhyde 5 жыл бұрын

is a small chicken which isn't stereo.....

@VicariousReality7 4 жыл бұрын

Glue and carbon cloth.

@shinji112 5 жыл бұрын

One-rooster chassis..

@zakariayousri3281 5 жыл бұрын

super

@DetachedGarage 5 жыл бұрын

Mmmmmmmm Carbon Fiber!

@jaymorris3468 5 жыл бұрын

Fibre.

@catlee8064 5 жыл бұрын

Fibre...^as he said!

@DetachedGarage 5 жыл бұрын

@@jaymorris3468 NOPE! and it is not Tyre it is Tire

@gusbisbal9803 5 жыл бұрын

You know, alot of people go on about how they love cars, are into cars, they are car enthusiasts..... yet more than 6 minutes on the different ways cars are built is too much for these people. I call bullshit on being interested in cars and I say its alot of people are attention and status whores.... and THAT is why they are into cars. Also, there is no way that is a single piece of CF. It would be multiple blends of multi-bias sections laminated together. If not your CF that is good at resisting tension and terrible at resisting compression would not make you safe once you make contact with said tree.

@MrPagnu 5 жыл бұрын

That’s a tub

@TheLemouria 5 жыл бұрын

This channel looks like a one way.... only mclaren

@y2ksierra 5 жыл бұрын

Danilo Onorino British people like British cars? Shocker. Love this channel though, one of the best on KZfaq.

@muhammadhamka9660 5 жыл бұрын

alex please stay

@mariosutalo 5 жыл бұрын

It's a chassis with one p.... 🤣

@natetricks123 5 жыл бұрын

you should stick to reviewing cars because you absolutely failed as describing a monococh. You should have used some animation and video would have taken 2 seconds

@FunkingPrink 5 жыл бұрын

And you seem to have failed to spell monocoque, despite it being in the title. Not that I disagree with you - I just couldn't resist. 😉

@Mr6Sinner 5 жыл бұрын

Well this video was certainly.....6 minutes.

@wonderit918 5 жыл бұрын

All man are monocoques

@evilquien9507 5 жыл бұрын

Am i the one heard he said monocock??

@RealNameNeverUsed 5 жыл бұрын

No. He said monocoque.

@britishentertainment7610 5 жыл бұрын

Sometimes my gf likes dp sometimes just monocoque

@notgoingback 5 жыл бұрын

This wasn’t informative enough. Honestly. I expected more

@zimcam1 5 жыл бұрын

what a great excuse to drive a beautiful car.... I hate you! no, really. (snicker)

@WanderingSword 5 жыл бұрын

nothing more than an infomercial video for McLaren

@steadyrockscotland 5 жыл бұрын

To be fair, this video is light on anything interesting or useful...

@gagamba9198 5 жыл бұрын

A diagram of McClaren's (or BMW's, Alpha's) monocoque would have been more useful. Think things through thoroughly.

@alaindore4144 5 жыл бұрын

Well that was useless. I kept checking to time to see when he'd get to the answer and it never really came.

@kending8502 4 жыл бұрын

Now..... I have no idea at all Good job, Just kidding , bad video

@ianstoyan 5 жыл бұрын

So irritating

@jamesslade554 5 жыл бұрын

I think if you tried really hard you could be a bit more patronising and present even less information. Very disappointed.

@patpowell862 4 жыл бұрын

Well, no real visual reference of a monocoque. Bad video. Bad.

@FunkingPrink 5 жыл бұрын

I still don't get it. In fact, I think I'm more confused...

@jonienglish3231 5 жыл бұрын

THIS IS A UGLY LOOKING CAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!