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Originally Posted by F87source
Lololol, structural too. But mostly the material guys trying to make things thinner and lighter.
I heard that's why teams are starting to use floor stays so they can make the floor thinner to save weight.
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Material science is a sub-discipline of structural. I spent most of my research on metallurgy.
I highly doubt these gentlemen are inventing new materials, they'd probably have to outsource that type of expertise. They're just modifying load paths and alternating materials with lower densities that may only be useful in shear or tension or ductility or etcetcetc