Monocoque in a sentence

The word monocoque is a French term for "single shell" or (of boats) "single hull". citation Semi-monocoque Some structures have sub-components that are monocoques, but which form part of a composite frame structure.

Crafted on entirely unique underpinnings beyond the standard marque's design, the Droptail’s exclusive rigid monocoque structure seamlessly blends aluminium, steel, and carbon fibre.

Powered by a quad-turbocharged V12 engine in a beautiful carbon monocoque, the Aurora is a force of nature.

Renowned Zambian UK based Professor Clive Chirwa has designed and manufactured a high roof monocoque bus according to the Provisions of Statutory Instrument (SI).

The impact was fierce enough to expose Correa's feet as the front section of the car broke away, leaving him trapped in the cockpit, while Hubert's car broke into two as the monocoque split from the rear section of the car.

The monocoque chassis’s characteristics seem to come out the most under hard cornering.

Aerobars can be separate bars that are attached to time trial or bull horn bars, or they can be part of a one-piece monocoque design.

Although it crashed, he learned a lot from its construction, and the Zeppelin-Lindau D.I was built in 1918, and although too late for operational service during the war, was the first all metal monocoque aircraft to enter production.

Both nonrigid ships nevertheless had strong metal monocoque envelopes which, while they maintained their shape uninflated, required an overpressure during flight.

By thinking of the airframe as a whole, and not just the sum of its parts, monocoque structures made sense and various companies soon adopted practices from the boat industry such as laminating thin strips of wood.

Fuselage The oval-section fuselage was a frameless monocoque shell built in two halves being formed to shape by band clamps over a mahogany or concrete mould, each holding one half of the fuselage, split vertically.

In 1912, Deperdussin introduced a monocoque racer using a fuselage made up of three layers of laminated strips of glued poplar veneer, which provided both the external skin and the main load-bearing structure.

In a true monocoque design there is no internal structure left.

In contrast, the contemporary Spitfire used all-metal monocoque construction and was thus both lighter and stronger, though less tolerant to bullet damage.

It features a 3.5L twin-turbocharged V6 engine, carbon fiber monocoque and body panels, pushrod suspension and active aerodynamics.

Later aircraft employed semi- monocoque techniques, where the skin of the aircraft is stiff enough to share much of the flight loads.

Monocoque or cap During the 1980s, Bucky Kashiwa developed a new construction technique using a rolled stainless steel sheet forming three sides of a torsion box over a wooden core, with the base of the ski forming the bottom.

Team Lotus reserved the monocoque Lotus 25 for their own use that season.

Technically conservative, Brabham did not produce a monocoque car until 1970.

The aircraft's two-section, semi- monocoque fuselage was constructed entirely of aluminum to save weight.