Unibody vs. body-on-frameBrooke, Lindsay
The body on frame construction is the traditional approach of assembling a vehicle. It involves mounting the body of the vehicle on an underlying frame, which is actually the chassis accommodating the powertrain. During a pickup assembly, the bed goes on top of the frame separately. This is s...
Unibody 是 unit body 或 unitized body 的缩写——意味着车身、地板和主要底盘结构支撑和碰撞保护元件被焊接、粘合、模制或以某种方式连接成一个单一的结构元件。这种建造方法在工程和建造方面在技术上更为复杂,但与建造车身然后将其安装到单独的结构框架相比,它提供了相当大的重量减轻机会。它在汽车应用中的首次使用...
Body-on-frame constructionIn crashes between cars and SUVs, car occupants are more likely to be killed than if they crashed with another car. An increasing proportion of SUVs are built with unibody, rather than truck-like body-on-frame construction. Unibody SUVs are generally lighter, less ...
This is in line with the conceptual change seen in the automobile industry, in which the basis of car structures has changed from body﹐n‐frame designs to unibody designs. In unibody designs, all structural parts of the body of the car mechanically form a single structural entity. In modern...