Plot of Equivalent Stress (von-Mises)
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Plot of Maximum Principal Stress
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These pictures show one of the cases I ran in FEA to compare roll cage designs. This is a 27 kN force (about a 2.5 g crash for my car) applied to the top
of the A-pillar which is the weakest point of the roll cage. The maximum deflection at this load is 6 mm. I applied loads like this on many different points on
the roll cage and modified my designs until I came up with this final design which performed well under all of the conditions I applied to it.
