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• Matt - distribute the entire mass of the chassis onto the entire thing

  • allocate the additional masses and distribute to the entire chassis

Tom - time crunch?

• run it again - same constraints - run no mass

  • if mass is not the concern, start looking at how it is constrained can be a factor

  • eliminating major factors and narrowing the potential factors

    • Idea: remove the complexities and analyze it on a simple level

  • suspect that point masses could be sources of the problem

    • test it unloaded

    • test it masses distributed across the chassis

  • simplifying your model and still missing by a wide margin, there is something potentially wrong from the fundamentals (how you sim it)

Summary of Action Items

As per shalin and matt:

• try simulating just the chassis for the worst case orientation with no masses

  • then keep adding masses to check for exponential increase (unreasonable)

• Shalin’s suggestion of L-shaped passenger (geometry+density =80kg)

• make presentation and send to advisors for offline review (see unclosed items)

  • take a look at kimberly’s studies on making the bar go into the chassis with the chassis stationary

  • also take a look at doing what MSXII did for having the contact between the collision object and the chassis be frictionless

    • frictional and sliding contact; one node closes to the collision object near the centre to prevent it from sliding

• distribute the additional masses of the entire vehicle across the entire chassis and see how that runs

Unclosed Items

Fixing the chassis and running the bar into the chassis

friction contacts

^^ weren’t able to conclude or no ground basis of justification

• reached to that point – didn’t reach out to advisors for review

  • that is the time to bring in the advisors for review