Would fuel efficiency be better when the body structure frame is better?

Question

In cars, boats, planes, trains, and spacecraft, fuel efficiency is wasted by the amounts of vibrations and frictions developed in the body-frames of the vehicle. When the structure frame's structural efficiencies are upgraded, the fuel consumptions should also lower.

A way to reduce vibrations and frictions within the vehicle's body and chassis frames has been developed, which achieves these reductions by adding a full-frame shock absorber/tension spring net along the inside walls of the body-frame. The net's strappings between the connecting points dampens the forces being absorbed by the body-frame, reducing the oscillations in the body-frame, in effect, a full-frame shock absorber. These structural strap-nets reduce the amounts of vibrations and friction resistances between 33% and 67%, depending on the strap-net system used. They also reduce costs by reducing the sizes and thicknesses of the body-frame materials, because of the increases in efficiencies. Better fuel efficiency?

Answer 1

It certainly wouldn't make much difference in a road vehicle.  It's always good to save weight, of course, but that would be the only advantage: automotive frame members are almost purely elastic and don't dissipate any measurable power.

Answer 2

wow, back to the future! thats how the suspension worked on celtic chariots :-)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_warf...

Answer 3

The concept sounds plausible. But it may want to be married to some concepts used in developing the Hyper car. That is, a use of extremely light carbon fibre in the body. If we reduce the amount of weight in a car, as Hyper car does, to something in the order of 200kg, ( a car that looks like a Prius), and lightens the suspension system (weight not strength) with optimal aerodynamics, we have already achieved better than 100 MPG.

Your strategy might now improve the fuel consumption by 10 MPG.

For a vehicle that gets 14 MPG, it might add 3MPG, which is a proportionally larger gain, even though in absolute terms it would be less.

Answer 4

is s*x better if ur built? dat should answer your question