Hi,
This week our team was busy redesigning the brackets in accordance with what was asked of us after the individual group meeting with Furman and Eric. We also spent a deal of time working on the PowerPoint presentation, tabulating inventory , and drafting drawings to e-mail companies. We have started a Bill of Materials (Image 2) and should have that completed before November 15th (the deadline). We have yet to contact Vander Bend because we are fixing the rest of our track before we send them the improved curvatures. Despite not yet asking for a quote, we have reached out to them and obtained several contacts so we will keep in touch with them as soon as we are ready. We have e-mailed Kearny Foundry for a quote on how much it would cost to create a mold of our bracket (Image 1) and the cost of each filling of ALU 6061.
One of the problems we confronted this week included being unable to perform Finite Element Analysis (FEA) on an assembly and thus, we had to redraw the track as a single part. We simply redrew the loop to FEA (Image 3), where we accounted for the rest of the track with fixed points and proper weights. And below are several pictures of, but not all, the things we accomplished this week as we will be updating these into the overall Spartan Superway Folder for the others to access.
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