Guide Arm:
- currently working on improving on the design for the spring holder and wheel holder
- the Safety factor is really high attempting to decrease material and make design changes to improve design and optimize for safety of factor above 2, but not extremely high.
- images of the components are provided that show area where material can be removed.
- furthermore, the prototype should a concern a different loading concern when it comes off of switching tracks, the force will not all be perpendicular to the track, so additionally FEA was done with different loading conditions.
- minimum Factor of safety = 27
- goals for next week
- start report
- Redesign my initial design of the "arm" for the guide arm,
- and hopefully have confirmed mounting points from interaction team.
Figure 1: The blue areas shows where most of the load is acting.
Figure 2: The transparent areas show where material can be taken off.
Figure 3: The loading was changed for this FEA study of the part.
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