Truly an Endurance test!!
Surely this situation would not have been considered during the vehicle's design. Approximately taking each person to be 50 kg, and I see atleast 25 people standing on the top, it amounts to more than a tonne. I am sure the roof was designed to offer only structual stability and not to bear loads. AL has the right to be proud!!
Picture Courtesy: The Hindu, Feb 7, 2007
2 comments:
ha ha! Losers!!
ok now AL design goes like this....
for a 12 tonne load vehicle (dead + pay), use 11m chasis with frame gauge thickness 8mm.(since BL days :D)
I bet 5.5 - 6 would still maintain a FOS of 2.0, but these guys use atleast 3.0**.. now in the market they say, if u buy an AL vehicle with marked max load of N tonne, it can take 2N tonne***, then...(no comments :P).. now go and check the dead weight to laden weight ratio (specification wise), and compare it with TATA(*).
not the least, AL can always go to a layman and say their products are superior....
but still, they dont build the body! :P, so ur claim doesnt make sense here
** Re: Haridas CAE, AL-Tech
***Re: forgot his name.. the quality ctrl Manager in Gear shop, Ennore!!
(*)Re: Mr. Senthil Kumar Venkatesan, who has worked for AL-AdvEngg. and M&M
loosa...all said and done, u r only talking about frame design and cross bearers...adhoda loads elaam directly transferred to suspension-->axle-->wheels...
but roof is just a sheet metal work with cross supports for rigidity and forms no part of a load bearing structure...and AL has body building facility in pondicherry from which these MTC buses come....
anyways..one imp matter..u left out a major reference: ultimate expert in failure analysis and endurance testing. Prof Bhaskar.
have u forgotten the way he proposed a new theory to test one composite structure?
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