monocoque
Noun
Meaning
monocoque (plural monocoques)
A structure design in which the frame and body are built as a single integrated structure.
Examples
Aerobars can be separate bars that are attached to time trial or bull horn bars, or they can be part of a one-piece monocoque design.
Although it crashed, he learned a lot from its construction, and the Zeppelin-Lindau D.I was built in 1918, and although too late for operational service during the war, was the first all metal monocoque aircraft to enter production.
Automobiles 1981 McLaren MP4/1, with a carbon fiber composite monocoque The aluminum alloy monocoque chassis was first used in the 1962 Lotus 25 Formula 1 race car.
Both nonrigid ships nevertheless had strong metal monocoque envelopes which, while they maintained their shape uninflated, required an overpressure during flight.
By thinking of the airframe as a whole, and not just the sum of its parts, monocoque structures made sense and various companies soon adopted practices from the boat industry such as laminating thin strips of wood.
Fuselage The oval-section fuselage was a frameless monocoque shell built in two halves being formed to shape by band clamps over a mahogany or concrete mould, each holding one half of the fuselage, split vertically.