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How do we ensure the 60/40 ratio for weight distribution
Solution:
Kayla I need help with this
Aluminum welding or things that might be challenging shouldn’t be steered away from
Solution:
Look into what part might be challenging to make or might require aluminum welding and evaluate if the time taken to research and manufacture that is worth the time or would it be better to spend that time on a slightly less efficient part to optimize other parts
Factor of Safety
Solution:
Create a list of what parts need a factor of safety, then you can holistically assign each part an accurate factor.
Some of our factors of safety come from regs + real-life conditions
Fatigue
Solution:
Look further into fatigue analysis to understand cycle life
Look into aluminum fatigue since it does
Shock spring rate
Solution:
Creating a shock characterization jig using a jig we made last year as a reference to help us find the spring rate
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Steering Specific
Evaluate bump steer:
Solution:
Look into the past and how to improve for the future
Talk to suspension about how their systems will work to account for that in the design for steering because steering would be easier to change to account for it rather than suspension
Backlash issues with gearbox
Solution:
Issues that we think might occur with the gearbox of backlash might not be a factor that we need to consider seeing that combustion didn’t have those issues. Talk to the other teams for new designs we might look into like the gearbox
If we get to tuning the steering and adding telemetry sensors accounting for rack vs upright
Solution:
Have a sensor on the upright or the wheel to see the difference between turn of the rack vs the turn of the wheel
Tuning the steering:
Solution:
Look at the track to optimize our steering for the radii on the track race and see how the racing line for us would work vs the optimal steering line for formula cars
If we know the road for ASC try to see if we can map out our path for ASC and what turns it would expect us to take
Effort to max speed, quantify it:
Solution:
Need to look into it further on how to quantify it
Unsprung Specific