General Guidelines:

Create a confluence page and link it here
Contact the person you’re working with over Slack
We will check-in every Mech Check-in to view progress, and assign more research in these areas as necessary.
If there’s already research or materials on the topic: Link in your Confluence page and explain them (do a little analysis).

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Research Tasks

Aero

Body Design

Problem/Unknown/Task	Goals & Subtasks	Individual(s)	Confluence Page(s)
Bullet Design Catamaran Design Comparisons	Learning Fluid Mechanics to start optimizing angles for better simulations based on the rough simulations.	Michael Hanley Aaron Dyck (Deactivated)	Catamaran VS Bullet Comparison
New Task: Study on Yaw angles and reducing crosswinds in a vehicle	This helps with cornering when driving the vehicle. Assign this task to a member!	Overseer: Michael Hanley To be assigned to: Evan Dodd	Yaw Angle Study
What angle of bend can be designed for the solar array to be effective/not break?	Fill out information for the page in terms of resources, types of cells. Prioritize silicon based cells.	Aidan Lehal Owen Clayton	Solar Array - Bending Conditions
Theory and understanding: finding resources and General software tools (CFD, FEA, etc.)	Broadening this research task: Airfoil Design Summarizing the material or extracting topics to look into/start learning (i.e. make a list and set up a page full of topics)	Yanshen Zhou Michael Hanley New Members! Owen Stephenson Isabella Schneider Mackenzie Lui	Body Design - Theory And Understanding
Airfoil Design	Understand airfoil design and optimal angles for each type of airfoil		Airfoil Design
Sailing	See if we can use sailing to provide extra forward thrust
Optimal Car Dimensions	See what potential dimensions of the car can maximize aero performance and solar array area
Flow Separation Control	See how we can minimize flow separation on our car (angles, etc.)		Flow Separation Control

Panel Design

Problem/Unknown/Task

Goals & Subtasks

Individual(s)

Confluence Page

What are the types of canopy design?

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Ace Choi

https://uwmidsun.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MECH/pages/edit-v2/2978906172?draftShareId=b2d76ce2-cb5b-4de3-8ef1-f30be2fbcc95

What are feasible canopy windshield designs?

What are available materials?

Ace Choi

https://uwmidsun.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MECH/pages/edit-v2/2981822465

Manufacturing

Problem/Unknown/Task	Goal	Individual(s)	Confluence Page
What are the limitations of each manufacturing method (wet layup, infusion, etc.)?	Research is currently done, just need to cross check by another lead/member	Michael Hanley Owen Stephenson To be reviewed by Minqian Lu Connor Hawkins	What are the limitations of each manufacturing method (wet layup, infusion, etc.)?
NEW TASK Sandwich Panel Core Type research (e.g. foam core, types of foam cores, nomex, etc. etc.)	Types of core comparisons between cores and their properties	Victoria Purcell To support the research: Sheila Afros	Sandwich Panel Core Research
How to manufacture complex curves?	Start/continue research for next meeting Michael Hanley to delegate specific tasks	Mridul Thakur Former user (Deleted) Ishan Bhatt	https://uwmidsun.atlassian.net/l/c/F5R40uwb
What are the methods of manufacturing canopies and see through panels (i.e. Thermoforming, etc.)?	Design Requirements for molds to be thermoformed Learning the process of thermoforming	Ali Arshad	https://uwmidsun.atlassian.net/l/c/AL192w45
How do panel integrations work? I.e. connecting parts, potentially mounting parts?	Create or dump on Confluence page to be organized Review and TLDR for carbon fiber & chassis integration	Thomason Zhou To be reviewed by: Asher L Kimberly Liu - provide reference links	Panel Integrations: Adhesives vs Fasteners and Previous Integrations
How to make a mold for various methods (foam, fiberglass, MDF, aluminum etc.)?	Link Confluence Page Research aluminum molds Surface finishing estimates/difficulties for the various methods Testing methods, plans?	Mohamed Goha Sheila Afros	Molds Previous Pages: Foam Molds

Dynamics

Problem/Unknown/Task	Goal	Individual(s)	Confluence Page
What are the areas of research for Dynamics? i.e. break down Dynamics even further How many types of systems are in the subsystems of Dynamics? Come up with a list Priority: steering/farings design, etc.	Try some higher level investigations to see the whole system first Compile resources we can use to learn about dynamics	Jens Dekker - brakes Alisa Shirkalina - suspension Minqian Lu - steering
Suspension	Need a higher level view to understand more where to go into technical-wise	Alisa Shirkalina	Suspension: Dynamics - Suspension Overview https://uwmidsun.atlassian.net/l/c/CZmtW0JM
Brakes	Summarizing chapters from the textbook for high level information	Jens Dekker	Dynamics - Brakes Overview
Steering	General research into steering Looking for more resources for types of systems	Minqian Lu	https://uwmidsun.atlassian.net/l/c/BS3AhQ1h

Chassis

Problem/Unknown/Task	Goal	Individual(s)	Confluence Page
What are the advantages of various types of tubing for the chassis?	What are our goals for the vehicle? Add these factors to a decision matrix/factors impacting the chassis design. Eventually: types of tubes & materials for tubes	Aidan Lehal Ali Arshad	Chassis - Tube Design
What are the types of materials that can be used for the tubing? Price, applications, etc.?	Research into alternatives and analysis What clamps we need for welding chassis tubes	Aidan Donen	Chassis Tubing Material
What type of designs are out there for chassis?	Specific requirements / goals for MSXV What is the manufacturability of chassis design types? Analyze concept chassis designs of each type to see how each acts under loaded sims.	Ali Arshad Aidan Lehal	https://uwmidsun.atlassian.net/l/c/BuZkbnwu
What type of packaging constraints do we have? Occupancy cell, packaging dimensions, etc.?	General CAD model what the rough size & geometry for the occupant cell	Ali Arshad Yanshen Zhou	Chassis - Packaging Constraints
Roof / Solar Array Tilting Mechanism	Research into existing and potentially new designs	Asher L	Chassis - Roof / Solar Array Tilting System