2024-09-19 Mechanical Meeting Minutes

Date

Sep 19, 2024

Attendance

Team Announcements

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Presenter

Notes

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Next Flight Test

@Alison Thompson

Upcoming Team Events

@Smile Khatri

  • Social on Friday at 7pm! Bring baked goods and board games! See announcements for more info

Next Work Session

@Smile Khatri

Other Announcements

@Alison Thompson

  • We have decided we will be competing in AEAC this year, please read conops:

  • Plz fill out team roster form for this term! Mandatory for joining the team, complete this AFTER your bootcamp! We will NOT assign you any tasks, give you the bay code, or review your designs until this is done!

Mac Users

@Nathaniel Li

  • Should help anyone who needs to get SW setup or troubleshoot

  • Also applies if you need to use other non-Mac programs

Updates

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Presenter

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Presenter

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Task Deadlines and Workflow + Project Managers

@Alison Thompson

  • Decision docs

CAD Guidelines Updates

@Alison Thompson

  • It’s now mandatory to add fasteners to your CAD, and all COTS components are stored in a common COTS folder on PDM

  • Common fasteners have been added to COTS folder already

  • Add all new COTS to the COTS folder, following new naming convention

  • Ask if you have questions!

Pegasus Electronics Cases

@Alison Thompson

  • New tasks:

https://uwarg-docs.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/MEC/database/2690187266?contentId=2690187266&entryId=458c76e8-3dd3-4c73-ab3c-e09533345a36&savedViewId=96af723e-7587-4107-b690-1ccf37ce5055

Pegasus Frame

@Alison Thompson

New task:

IMACs

@Smile Khatri

 

Tracking Antenna

@Smile Khatri @Sohee Yoon

  • Angle limiter updates

  • Thoughts on design review

  • New Task:

    • Improved mounting mechanism to the tripod ->

Wings

@Nathaniel Li

  • FEA Study for Ribs:

    • Great work from @Sohee Yoonso far

    • Different results from Ansys and SW, some errors occurred

    • Stress around spar cut outs → fillet corners

    • Iterate new design and retest under same and some new conditions (max lift)

  • New tasks:

PDM Updates

@Evan Janakievski

Please remember to check in items on PDM when you are done using it for the day!

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