156B Week 9

What have been done in the past week

• Finished fabrication of Center of Mass shapes

• Continued with documentation in Final Report

• Chose material for bending/buckling demo tool

• Truss design challenge

1. Reselected better connectors (ring terminals)

2. Laser cut rocker and pin supports + added grip pad

Feedback from meeting with sponsor

• Add detailed fabrication instructions for each model and design challenge to the Final Report

  1. Exact Cost

  2. CAD Files

  3. How can we mass produce and reduce cost?

     • Alternative materials suited to mass production

  4. For certain models use 300 mass produce models as a benchmark

  5. Instructions should be detailed enough that a TA can make your model without any help

• Presentation

  1. Start with Hyatt Regency model, make it an interactive part

  2. Broader Impact

What is the next step of your project

• Testing out different possibilities for center of mass design challenge

• Cut shapes for bending/buckling demo tool

• Building the truss design using finalized connectors

• Create small truss structures to test strength of truss members

• Finalizing details of truss design challenge assignment (parameter values/constraint values)

• Finalize design of Vector Box in AutoCAD and SOLIDWORKS

• Add detailed fabrication instructions for every model and design challenge to the Final Report