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Vehicle frame. A vehicle frame, also historically known as its chassis, is the main supporting structure of a motor vehicle to which all other components are attached, comparable to the skeleton of an organism. Until the 1930s, virtually every car had a structural frame separate from its body. This construction design is known as body-on-frame.
Body-on-frame. A ladder frame. A 2007 Toyota Tundra chassis holding the vehicle's engine, drivetrain, suspension and wheels. The BMW i3 electric car is one of the rare modern passenger cars with a separate body and frame design (2013). Body-on-frame is a traditional motor vehicle construction method whereby a separate body or coach is mounted ...
In physics and engineering, a free body diagram ( FBD; also called a force diagram) [1] is a graphical illustration used to visualize the applied forces, moments, and resulting reactions on a body in a given condition. It depicts a body or connected bodies with all the applied forces and moments, and reactions, which act on the body (ies).
Platform chassis. A Tesla platform chassis, used for both the Model S and the Model X. A platform chassis is a form of vehicle frame / automobile chassis, constructed as a flat plate or platform, sometimes integrating a backbone or frame-structure with a vehicle's floor-pan.
Human skeleton. The human skeleton is the internal framework of the human body. It is composed of around 270 bones at birth – this total decreases to around 206 bones by adulthood after some bones get fused together. [1] The bone mass in the skeleton makes up about 14% of the total body weight (ca. 10–11 kg for an average person) and ...
Seat lug: a frame lug on the top of the seat tube serving as a point of attachment for a clamp to secure the seat post; Seat tube: the roughly vertical tube in a bicycle frame running from the seat to the bottom bracket; Seat bag: a small storage accessory hung from the back of a seat; Seatpost: a post that the seat is mounted to. It slides ...
t. e. Body mass index ( BMI) is a value derived from the mass ( weight) and height of a person. The BMI is defined as the body mass divided by the square of the body height, and is expressed in units of kg/m 2, resulting from mass in kilograms (kg) and height in metres (m). The BMI may be determined first by measuring its components by means of ...
List of medieval armour components. Late medieval gothic plate armour with list of elements. The slot in the helmet is called an occularium. This list identifies various pieces of body armour worn from the medieval to early modern period in the Western world, mostly plate but some mail armour, arranged by the part of body that is protected and ...