Have material ready to set a track width, wheelbase, and CoG location (by Thursday night)
Have the requirements sheet completely filled in to the best of your ability
Have architecture brainstorm ideas
We will be bringing Daybreak to the EnergizeUT event on Wednesday - please volunteer if you are able
start having full system meetings
First workday will all new members will be this Saturday. What are we planning for them? (list down below)
lecture
There should no longer be weeks without system meetings
Discussion topics
What got accomplished in the week prior
What must be accomplished in the week following
What each member will be working on
Use meetings as a time to work. We cannot finish a car in two years if people only collaborate on Saturday - time to collaborate on actual work at system meetings
We need to start working on Daybreak
Please have week-by-week timelines for each system by tomorrow (use the Gantt chart on the SharePoint)
SRR Prep
SRR Official Date: Sunday, October 6, 2024?
Trial Run:
Friday, 9/27 for Body
Friday, 10/4 for everyone else
Continue working on your slides
Start coming up with potential questions the audience might ask and prepare answers for them
Steven joins the new member in our practice CAD task (groups of 2-3)
Jacob does a mini-solids lecture
compile research and resources for new members
send them our presentation from trial
at some point i want dynamics to split off to talk about structuring, slack channels, communication, subsystem debrief, resources etc. - going through DB cad and assemblies - get an idea of what subsys. does what
vsusp review for those interested in suspension
aerodynamics
get people installing software(solidworks, slack, BILD, etc)
while theyre installing begin to introduce the slides where they can research different shell shapes
LUNCH!
second half of day will be solidworks, get them started on basic sketches and all that
for the people who have solidworks experience already and don’t want to relearn, we may begin to help them w ANSYS
composites
again get them their software(solidworks, slack, BILD, etc)
introduce the 3 research projects and get them caught up, assigned to, and working on one of the 3
Frame
Preliminary powerpoint presentation explaining subsystem goals, this year’s design choices, current state of the subsystem, etc.
Cantilevered beam problem: talk about what happens to a simply supported beam in pure bending,build understanding of fundamentals and how it applies to frame context (e.g., I-beam vs a solid beam)
Have them solve an equation of beam in pure bending
Give brief electrical architecure/car layout lecture
More in-depth lecture for enclosures and cooling
1 of our members has extensive Ansys knowledge, help setup the environment for cooling members while above is happening
Everyone will be on solidworks after lunch, looking at the old parts, all the hardware that's going in the car.
Start having them get familiar with SW env, start doing sketches, familiarize them with manufacturing methods, DFM, skeleton modeling
TIW Certified for prototyping and making enclosures for daybreak (laser cutting)
Acetone bath setup for ABS printed parts
Old members
help.
help leads w new member onboarding iono we dont even got nun tbh that's bad
composites: research (i mean tbf i only have 1 so like not much is gonna happen in that sense lol)
Architecture Ideas
External vs Internal Suspension
external - wheel covers involves aeroshell help - no clue how steering and suspension mounting will interface w the covers and uprights, prolly have to do different calcs/sims w suspension components (CF pushrods, bottom CF control arm) fatigue and aerodynamics - concerns ab aerodynamics, have to account for the fact that whatever exposed wheels and suspension assembly will create > significant amt of drag
internal - increase shell width (harder to account for tipping), wheel cutouts , harder accessibility
Top mounted steering vs bottom mounted w solid column
better and more goated for packaging and less compliance from columns and ujoints needing a secondary mount to the frame - not in the damn way of the driver
dk how this interfaces with an external suspension
Double-wishbone vs trailing arm front suspension
Double-wishbone vs trailing arm rear suspension
Bearings in hub or upright - dead axle vs live axle vs hub is axle
Canopy Location(front, middle, back)
Aero covers on control arms (idk if this counts bc it shouldn’t rly affect anyone else)
Composite testing plans
Frame
cf Pushrods (and maybe dev of cf control arms?!?!)
external vs internal suspension
Beam element simulation vs Solid element simulation
Multi-Level Frame (we are not debating this, we are doing it)
Hexagonal front frame profile to adjust hdpt heights and wishbone lengths
Adjust heights for ergo packaging w/out affecting suspension
Cons - adds complexity and makes it harder to load path; added weight bc more tubes?
Have week-by-week timelines in the daybreak gantt chart by leads meeting tomorrow
@Kayla Lee Have material ready to set a track width, wheelbase, and CoG location (by Thursday night)
Have draft research proposal by EOD Sep 28, 2024 - @Advait Joshi
@Philip Bortolotti@Gerard Cardenas Review Requirements List
Have SRR presentations complete by your trial run date
@Advait Joshi@Noah Hickman@Harshit Dalmia Create a more detailed plan (roughly in general detail, doesn’t have to be hyper-specific) for onboarding over the next 5 weeks - by 9/28 @Parthiv Shah
Have a list of projects that members can choose from - by 10/1
Get a list of who needs to be machine shop certified
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