Chassis post biography definition

Load-bearing framework

A chassis (,^[1];^[2] plural chassis from French châssis[ʃɑsi]) is the load-bearing framework of a manufactured object, which structurally supports the object in its construction and function.

An example of a chassis is a vehicle frame, the underpart of a motor vehicle, on which the body is mounted; if the running gear such as wheels and transmission, and sometimes even the driver's seat, are included, then the assembly is described as a rolling chassis.

Examples of use

Vehicles

See also: Rolling chassis and Vehicle frame

In the case of vehicles, the term rolling chassis means the frame plus the "running gear" like engine, transmission, drive shaft, differential, and suspension.

The "rolling chassis" description originated from assembly production when an integrated chassis "rolled on its own tires" just before truck bodies were bolted to the frames near the end of the line.^[3] An underbody (