2024-12-02 Mechanical Meeting

Announcements

• LHR OB elections this Wednesday at 7PM in ECJ 1.202

  • at least 50% of leadership from each team must be present

Highlights

really cool solar car we found(matthew & jason) i think we gotta pivot the design

Aeroshell had the highest attendance out of any system this workday, both in number and percent (2/20 attended) (this includes leads and members)

Blockers/Conflicts

Do you have any blockers or conflicts that are preventing you from making forward progress/completing certain tasks OR making things more difficult than they should be?

Review of Thanksgiving Break

What was planned for break:

What got done:

Try to get CAD for the each part of the car done for each subsystem

Aerodynamics

• have finalized vague architecture design?

Advait - Finish daybreak stuff + finish battery box panels + finish processing for initial test of first forged carbon fiber test, figure out what to improve in manufacturing/prep process

Continue work on designing/planning ergo projects

Finalize ansys setups for frame sims

• motor controller cooling

• mppt cooling

• Intake/exhaust

Steering got upper and lower steering CAD to exist

Unsprung didn’t

Aerodynamics

• some members(at least 2) got their sims done

Composites

• all bb layups except 1

• all daybreak prep done, pretty much ready to bond w/ frame whenever

• Did first frame test pieces

• Did one with a higher vol fraction which looks better (bc less excess resin) but i forgot to take pic

  

• michael and i cleaned out pickle

Ansys sims for latest frame iteration was setup and ran

Only of a little bit of progress on daybreak pedal box, otherwise not much ergo work done

Plan for this week - please break tasks down into sub-tasks

Aerodynamics

• everyone needs to have an idea for the part they want to put on the shell, it needs to be able to put together as a final part on workday

Aeroshell(me)

• need to define some architecture things by workday, flat topshell or not,

Composites

• finish battery box, another metal sheet to be sanded, start making test cupon

Frame

• Compile all data from latest sims → see what design changes to make from there

• Continue jig design and weld plan → set due December 14th

Ergo

• Review initial designs for ballast box, seat, steering wheel @ body meeting tmr, go from there

• Work on daybreak pedal box 😩

Daybreak Progress

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Questions people have

What do you need from me this week?