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The word monocoque comes from the Greek for single ( mono ) and French for shell ( coque ).
The technique may also be called structural skin or stressed skin.
A semi-monocoque differs in having longerons and stringers.
Most car bodies are not true monocoques ; instead modern cars use unitary construction which is also known as unit body, unibody, or Body Frame Integral construction.
This uses a system of box sections, bulkheads and tubes to provide most of the strength of the vehicle, to which the stressed skin adds relatively little strength or stiffness.
The shell of a bird's egg is a perfect monocoque.
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