Thank you for the replies.
The fabricator is a desert race guy and pointed me towards the SCORE rule book. They are very simplistic, with a main tube size specified by the vehicle weight. The max being 4k lbs. There are also general design guidelines, but these apply to a full cage, not just a...
I'm designing a roll over protection system for my personal pickup truck and would like to know what loads I need to design to.
I started with a CAD model for the connection points and packaging. I then modeled the design in Femap using line elements representative of the tubing cross-sections...
