For this week, my job was to focus on updating the third rail design so that the supports will be of correct length. Nik from the Interface Bogie Team updated us on how tall the bogie switching wheels would be standing. The original supports for the third rail were 10" long and with the new information they are now roughly 1.5". The third rail also had to be slightly re-designed to ensure that our analysis was optimized.
I am planning to continue with analysis and design for the rest of this week and the next. We want to have as much material as possible for the third presentation. We also want to continue working towards finalizing our design so that there is little to no change from here on out.
One of the only problems I faced this week was created the segmented track, for some reason we could not a get an 8-m radius of curvature. We did however create the concept on CAD to present the idea to other teams.
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