Huntindog wrote:
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What is a cambered chassis?
In the structural engineering world, camber is known as having a slight arc or bend induced in a beam.
Yes, cambered means using a pre bent beam.
Take a piece of steel, and bend it over your knee. Now it cambered.
Adding weight of top of that piece of steel, and it gets flatter (fi the pre bent was up).
Putting some welding lines on top of a piece of steel will induce stress, and bent the piece of steel. EVERY weld does that. That is why when welding pieces of steel together, the welder is using a certain sequence to equalized the bending if a straight, NOT bent work piece is desired at the end.
You could also use a TORCH and heat up one side of your beam, and then quench (to induce thermal stress). If you have a high carbon content steel, you could actual HARDEN that material (think knives and swords).
That bead of weld - while bending the beam for the intended purpose - does NOT make it stiffer. Sorry.
