2024-01-20 Workday Log

2024-01-20 Workday Log

Name

What They Did

Name

What They Did

Philip

  • Took inventory on bolts (need to do locknuts

  • Reviewed manufacturing plan for axle

  • Started on full dynamics assembly (procrastinated over winter break)

Suspension

 

Andrew

  • Trained a few ergo members on manual mills in the morning

  • Drafted wishbone manufacturing plan in the afternoon

    • got feedback from jacob and nathan, will have finalized version by next workday

  • reviewed suspension assembly issues with jacob

    • steering arm location is currently 1-2 inches too low. Got permission from Luis to move it up and also informed Gerard of the change. 

    • current rear tie rod setup is undrivable bc 1) it's too long, causing large toe in at resting position 2) it's diagonal (when viewed top-down, meaning that toe in will further increase during wheel loads (up to 13°). We brainstormed a solution which I will finalize during the week. 

Kadhir

  • Worked on manufacturing plan

  • Faced one of the axles

Kayla

  • finished gcode for the frame jig plate 

  • short manufacturing plan for the plate done (not needed)

  • gcode practice, read suspension stuff on the book 

Unsprung

 

Gerard

  • Fixed some of the issues with the axle manufacturing plan

Steven

 

Sami

  • Began the manufacturing plan for the uprights and had it looked over by Jacob

Harshit

  • Sami and I found out the grooving tool in CAM doesn't work so I found a new tool that should work

  • Sent the new tool to Nathan and got it ordered

  • Began the manufacturing plan for the uprights and had it looked over by Jacob

  • Had Jacob check over the CAM for the upright

Steering

 

Luis

Finished the plate calculations for the rack. Also, set up a meeting with Nathan. 

Anh

 

Katy

  • Condensed next-gen research from winter break into powerpoint

  • Worked on manufacturing plan for steering hub mount plate

  • Read about 6-bar steering systems and linkage optimization

Evan

 

Frame

 

Kaitlyn

 

Josh

  • Looked into simming frame on SolidWorks but ran into meshing issues that caused stress concentrations in weird areas

  • Talked to Jacob about simming fundamentals and best practices

  • Will continue to experiment with simming through an assembly with the frame tabs and also with impact non-linear dynamic test

  • Shifted to new project of developing our own frame design to run sims on 

Noah

  • Researching/practicing simming on Solidworks, ran into outlier cases of stress concentrations, looking into h-adapative meshing and general mesh refinement

  • Statics lecture/talk with Jacob

  • Been simming like crazy over the weekend and Monday night ( i am going insane holy moly )