Hi Leopold!
Thanks again to take the time to answer my dummy's questions...
If I understand well, your press is designed to optimize deformation of itselfs in several cases of bending?
Wow! IF I had to design a press, I wouldn't have considered this problem at all! I would have just used a "consistant" thickness of steel, and nothing else... Really, really interesting to learn all this "little" tricks from you reading this post!
Concerning stamped parts, I'm not totally agree with you. If you have a part stressed in a non linear way, increasing, decreasing, increasing i.e, can"t it be usefull to apply to this part a shape that comply with the actual stress, with progressives sections that give the correct stiffness @ the right point? (In my mind, that is the principle advantage of using composites on a mono)
If you look close a gt40 chassis, there are a LOT of pressed parts, floor, rear bulkhead, lower front suspension ribs..., and that makes me wonder how gox, mirage and others arrive to produce those parts, without very expensives tools...
Bu the way, don't you need to adopt a brother?
Cheers
Olivier.