2017-05-14 Sunday Sync

Owned by Adam Marchand
Last updated: Sept 12, 2018

Date

Attendees

Agenda

  • Discuss progress on action items from last week
  • Subproject updates
    • Suspension
    • Aerobody
    • Brakes & Steering
    • Chassis
  • Discuss upgrades to Solidworks version once licenses expire in august

Minutes

ItemWhoNotes
Action items from last weekAll
  • Good progress from last week
SuspensionAdam Marchand
  • Suspension is in a good position right now
  • Looking to hand off design work to other mech team members to allow Adam Marchandto help out on steering design
AerobodyFormer user (Deleted)
  • Aerobody is looking to have another rev done in the next day
  • Panelization needs to be started in the first week of June, with a big push for panel design post hell week
  • Panelization workflow will be tested in the next few weeks (Rhino vs SW vs Speedform for most fluid process)
  • Adam Marchandwill look into potentially getting a test mold CNC'd at E3 to start testing layup methods this term
Brakes & SteeringDevon Copeland, Adam Marchand
  • Steering is a bit behind
  • Want to define the construction "downstream" from the rack for this week, to help unlock steering column design
  • Once steering arms, etc. are locked down, the rest of steering should fall into place
ChassisAdam Marchand, Devon Copeland
  • Matt Suskihas made good progress using beam elements in ANSYS - much faster meshes and solves, allowing for more iterations in shorter time frames
  • Currently cannot create a mesh using multiple tube profiles (i.e. square, larger/smaller rounds, etc.), as ANSYS tends to mesh all members as the most common/prominent profile
  • FEA boundary conditions are easy enough to define by collapsing mounting features to singular point loads: the point loads still are TBD, but will hopefully make the final chassis iterations faster
General Boring StuffAdam Marchand
  • We are due for a Solidworks update come start of August
  • IST is planning to deploy Win10 and new SW versions to all school computers at some point this term, so our upgraded version should be selected to match
  • Devon Copeland and Adam Marchand will decide on a CAD "freeze" to ensure all team members can update to a new license and version at the same time to avoid backwards compatibility issues

Action items