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Design method of under body platform automotive framing systems. The vehicle technologies office vto hosted a lightweight and propulsion materials workshop in march 2011 in dearborn, michigan. Unibody, or unitary construction, is a related construction technique for automobiles in which the body is integrated into a single unit with the chassis rather than having a separate bodyonframe. The integrated frame and body type of construction, also referred to as unitized construction, combines the frame and body into a single, onepiece structure figure 142.
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