How are frames different?
Ever-growing expertise in frame design – informed by material analysis, engineering and experienced research & development– brings you the range of frame options available to skaters today. Design, Development & Finite Element Analysis: Material analysis is being used increasingly in all types of specialized engineering. Traditionally, because of the computing power required, Finite Element Analysis (FEA or FEM: a computer modeling technique for calculating the strength or behaviour of engineering structures) was used mostly in aerospace, defence and large-scale engineering projects. FEM can calculate and model how a frame will deform (its stiffness and elasticity behaviour) under a defined load or strain – like a skater’s straightline push. FEM greatly assists prototyping of frames during development, among other ways, because the computer-generated behaviour model of a new design can be compared with one from an existing, proven design. FEM was used extensively in the development of
