Research Tasks
- Catherine Cai
- Michael Hanley
- Sheila Afros
- 1 General Guidelines:
- 2 Research Tasks
- 2.1 Aero
- 2.1.1 Body Design
- 2.2 Panel Design
- 2.3 Manufacturing
- 2.4 Dynamics
- 2.5 Chassis
- 2.1 Aero
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).
Expectations/Responsibilities:
We want you to be able to learn something from your task so please pick something that is interesting to you! Otherwise we will assign tasks.
Please keep your pages are up to date!
Please ask questions if you’re not sure of anything! Always happy to answer
Let leads know (if you prefer privately) if you have stuff that comes up and need a break/cannot complete your task. We want to be able to accommodate everyone the best we can and also be able to learn together!
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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) | |
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 | |
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 | |
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 | |
Airfoil Design | Understand airfoil design and optimal angles for each type of airfoil | @Joshua Allister Hiram Shaw (Deactivated) @Michael Hanley @krish vijayan @Abhinav Reddy (Unlicensed) | |
Sailing | See if we can use sailing to provide extra forward thrust | @Srijay Mundlur | |
Optimal Car Dimensions | @Isabella Schneider @Jasmine Thind | ||
Flow Separation Control | @Asher L @Mackenzie Lui |
Panel Design
Problem/Unknown/Task | Goals & Subtasks | Individual(s) | Confluence Page |
|---|---|---|---|
What are the types of canopy design? | [complete] | @Ace Choi | |
What are feasible canopy windshield designs? What are available materials? |
| @Ace Choi
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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.) | @Victoria Purcell
To support the research: @Sheila Afros | ||
How to manufacture complex curves? | @Mridul Thakur @Former user (Deleted) @Ishan Bhatt | ||
What are the methods of manufacturing canopies and see through panels (i.e. Thermoforming, etc.)? | @Ali Arshad | ||
How do panel integrations work? I.e. connecting parts, potentially mounting parts? | @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.)? | @Mohamed Goha @Sheila Afros | https://uwmidsun.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MECH/pages/2976088322
Previous Pages: https://uwmidsun.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MECH/pages/2761064817 |
Dynamics
Problem/Unknown/Task | Goal | Individual(s) | Confluence Page |
|---|---|---|---|
What are the areas of research for Dynamics?
| @Jens Dekker - brakes @Alisa Shirkalina - suspension @Minqian Lu - steering |
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Suspension | @Alisa Shirkalina | Suspension: https://uwmidsun.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MECH/pages/3008790529 https://uwmidsun.atlassian.net/l/c/CZmtW0JM | |
Brakes | @Jens Dekker | https://uwmidsun.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MECH/pages/2981298629 | |
Steering | @Minqian Lu |
Chassis
Problem/Unknown/Task | Goal | Individual(s) | Confluence Page |
|---|---|---|---|
What are the advantages of various types of tubing for the chassis? | @Aidan Lehal @Ali Arshad | https://uwmidsun.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MECH/pages/2976088450 | |
What are the types of materials that can be used for the tubing? Price, applications, etc.? | @Aidan Donen | https://uwmidsun.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MECH/pages/2980347963 | |
What type of designs are out there for chassis? | @Ali Arshad @Aidan Lehal | ||
What type of packaging constraints do we have? Occupancy cell, packaging dimensions, etc.? | @Ali Arshad @Yanshen Zhou | https://uwmidsun.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MECH/pages/2976547122 | |
Roof / Solar Array Tilting Mechanism | @Asher L | https://uwmidsun.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MECH/pages/2984312833 |