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<blockquote data-quote="Magnetoman" data-source="post: 45454" data-attributes="member: 2806"><p><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Al is 3x less dense than steel,but the walls of the UFM look to be ~3x thicker than on a standard UFM so theweight must be pretty much the same. Also, the usual alloys of Al have ~3xlower bending moduli than steel, but with 3x thicker walls, again the stiffnessmust be pretty much the same. Tensile strengths of Al alloys vary quite a bit,but are lower in general than steel. However, the fact the walls are ~3x thicker mitigatesagainst this so I would expect this UFM to be at least as crash resistant asthe original. If you ran into something hard enough to bend or break this UFM, and ifyou regained consciousness, you would have worse things to worry about than abent frame while waiting for the paramedics to show up. </span></span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: #000000">That said, whatproblem is this Al UFM supposed to address? Are there a lot more engines than UFMs sitting in garages? Are all the original UFMs silting up like thereservoirs behind many dams and is replacing them the only way to keep Vincentson the road? Is there some otherperformance advantage to the Al UFM that I'm overlooking? </span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Magnetoman, post: 45454, member: 2806"] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Times New Roman]Al is 3x less dense than steel,but the walls of the UFM look to be ~3x thicker than on a standard UFM so theweight must be pretty much the same. Also, the usual alloys of Al have ~3xlower bending moduli than steel, but with 3x thicker walls, again the stiffnessmust be pretty much the same. Tensile strengths of Al alloys vary quite a bit,but are lower in general than steel. However, the fact the walls are ~3x thicker mitigatesagainst this so I would expect this UFM to be at least as crash resistant asthe original. If you ran into something hard enough to bend or break this UFM, and ifyou regained consciousness, you would have worse things to worry about than abent frame while waiting for the paramedics to show up. [/FONT][/COLOR][/SIZE] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000] [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT][FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000]That said, whatproblem is this Al UFM supposed to address? Are there a lot more engines than UFMs sitting in garages? Are all the original UFMs silting up like thereservoirs behind many dams and is replacing them the only way to keep Vincentson the road? Is there some otherperformance advantage to the Al UFM that I'm overlooking? [/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3][COLOR=#000000][/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT] [/QUOTE]
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