Project 1 - Parsing NASA thermodynamic data

Aim: Write one page about Underbody coating and its purposes. Procedure: Underbody Coating is usually a dense cladding (often based on rubber) applied uniformly to the undercarriage of the automobile. It is normally sprayed or painted on when the car is just out of the dealership and is clean. But even if…

Aim: Benchmarking the cars in the present market and analyse it. Objective:  1. Benchmark with presently available cars in the market for the following case. Mr D.S. Pughazhyendhii is a married man who lives in Bangalore, a highly crowded city. His Family comprises five members including his wife, a five-year-old…

Aim: To perform a parametric study using 3 different values of thickness for the car body. Objective: Analyse the total deformation and Equivalent stresses acting on the model.  Procedure: 1) To verify welds in the setup, we use the Explicit Dynamics Tool in the analysis system toolbox to define the geometry…

Aim: To perform the tension and torsion test on the specimen provided below the video corresponding to the challenge.  Objective: For the tension test, displace one end of the specimen to 18mm while keeping the other fixed. You will need to find out the total deformation, equivalent stress and temperature of…

Aim: To perform a transient structural analysis on a worm gear assembly.  Objective: For the academic version, you need to cut the gear by half so as to bring the model within limits. For the challenge, you have to rotate the worm so as to get to almost the end of the half-cut and get results for Equivalent stress,…

Aim: To perform an explicit dynamics simulation to find out the Equivalent Stress, Total Deformation and also insert a User-defined result to calculate the temperature of the body. Objective: To perform this for 2 cases. One will be with a cutting velocity of 20000mm/s and the other will be with a cutting velocity…

  Aim: To perform the tension and torsion test on the specimen provided below the video corresponding to the challenge.  Objective: For the tension test, displace one end of the specimen to 18mm while keeping the other fixed. You will need to find out the total deformation, equivalent stress and temperature…

Aim: To perform a transient analysis on a piston and cam mechanism model. Objective: Runnig the analysis with Frictionless contact, Frictional with 0.1 and 0.2 as the frictional contact for a total of 3 cases. Find out the Equivalent Stress, Directional Deformation and Equivalent Elastic Strain and compare them…

Aim: To perform a transient structural analysis on a double universal joint with a spring using three different materials: Structural Steel, Stainless Steel and Titanium alloy. Objective: To obtain the Equivalent stress and total deformation for all three cases and compare them. Introduction: A universal joint…

Aim: To perform the bending of the iPhone and obtain the fatigue life of the Material. Objective: Case 1: Simulation of the model as it is given in the video. Case 2: Move the bottom fingers from their defined position to the given position X= 22.5mm & Z= 10mm and obtain the results for the simulation.…

Aim: To perform the analysis to simulate a sphere pressing on a plate. Objective: Press the sphere onto the plate 4mm downwards and retract it. The plastic deformation must be captured by you.  Procedure: 1) For wire bending analysis, we use the static structural tools in the analysis system toolbox…

Aim: Performing wire bending operation using structural analysis. Objective: Carry out a static structural analysis to find Equivalent Stress and Equivalent Elastic Strain for wire. We are using three different materials to perform wire bending. Comparing the three results on the basis of the solution. Procedure:…

Aim: To perform a copper rolling sheet simulation using the Ansys workbench. Objective: Simulate the rolling operation on a workpiece made of copper. The model will be provided to you. Increase the length of the workpiece by 60mm and decrease its size on both sides by 8mm. Run the simulation for 14 steps and you can…

Aim: To verify weld joints using static structural analysis. Objective: To stimulate three different types of welding using three different weld materials. To find out the directional deformation and equivalent strain experience by the setup. To identify the weld joint that experiences the highest equivalent stress in…

Aim: Performing sheet metal bending operation using structural analysis. Objective: Carry out a static structural analysis to find Equivalent Stress, Directional Deformation and Equivalent Elastic Strain. We are using three different materials to perform sheet metal bending. Comparing the three results on the basis…

Aim: To perform static structural analysis on the Railwheel and track setup. Objective: Carry out a static structural analysis to find out Equivalent stress, Total deformation and Life. Comparing results of 100000N and 5-time of bearing load i.e., 500000N load for analysis. Implementing a user-defined result and calculating…

Aim: Grid dependency test on bevel gear. Objective: Carry out a static structural analysis to find out Equivalent stress, Total deformation and Equivalent elastic strain. Using three different sizes of mesh 4, 5 and 6 to perform the grid dependency test. Comparing the three results on the basis of the solution. Grid…

Aim: To perform static structural analysis of Spur gear to find out the location of a possible fracture. Objective: Carry out a static structural analysis to find out Equivalent stress, Total Deformation and Stress Intensity. Using three materials Cast iron (ductile), Cast Steel and Cast bronze for analysis. Comparing…

Aim: To perform static structural analysis to determine the stress concentration on a plate with holes. Objective: Design a plate with a hole. (Case 1) Design a plate with three holes of different diameters. (Case 2) Determining the maximum deformation and stress developed in both models. Comparing the result of two…

Aim: To do a detailed study of Continuous Variable Transmission (CVT) using BAJA ATV vehicle and present our observations on it. THEORY: All-Terrain Vehicle: An all-terrain vehicle (ATV), also known as a quad (cycle), three-wheeler, four-wheeler, or quadricycle, as defined by the American National Standards Institute…

Aim: Design a mechanical battery pack. Objective: Cell: ANR26650M1-B Battery Pack Capacity: 18 kWh Prepare a detailed battery pack drawing along with its enclosure. State your assumptions. Introduction: As electric vehicles are increasing in the market is gradually increasing, there is considerable growth in the production…

Aim: The aim of this assignment is to perform file parsing on the given thermodynamic data file. Input Data File: Thermodynamic data file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1L8GY56d-M8mB1KfceM-xVhGNvnCIqxjm/view Objective: To perform a compatibility check on the thermodynamic data file that will be used for the file parsing…

Questions and Answer: 1. What does popt and pcov mean?  A: 'popt': It is an array of the coefficients of a polynomial specified at the beginning of the program.     'pcov': It is a square matrix that contains the true variance and covariance of the parameters. 2. What does np.array(temperature) do? A: Creates…

Aim: Write a program to simulate the transient behaviour of a simple pendulum and create an animation of its motion. Introduction: A simple pendulum is defined to have an object that has a small mass, also known as the pendulum bob, which is suspended from a light wire or string. In Engineering, ODE is used to describe…

Aim:  Writing a code that can solve an otto cycle and make plots for it. The requirements are 1. Code should create a PV diagram 2. Output the thermal efficiency of the engine.   Theory: To write a program that plots the PV diagram of an otto cycle, we should first understand the PV diagram. The diagram plots…

Aim: For a 10 cell series lithium-ion battery model, simulate the thermal effects and compare life cycle performance at various temperatures, charge & discharge rates using MATLAB. Theory: EV Thermal Management Systems: Its Importance in Electric Vehicle The coming era of electric energy is changing the energy…

Aim: To simulate the 3 test cases from the harness dashboard and write a detailed report on the results What is coulomb counting? Refer to the above model and explain how BMS implements coulomb counting for SOC estimation?  Simulating the 3 test cases from the harness dashboard and writing a detailed report on the…

Aim: Modelling of the development of a forward energy-based fuel consumption model of a P1 hybrid vehicle. Objectives: 1) Load the Project2 folder as the Current Folder in Matlab.2) Run the “Project2_InitFile.m” Matlab script.3) Copy the Conventional vehicle Simulink model created for Project 1 in this…

Aim: To prepare a table that includes materials & chemical reactions occurring at the anode and cathode of LCO, LMO, NCA, NMC, LFP and LTO type of lithium-ion cells and to give a detailed explanation on it. Ans:  1. Introduction Lithium-ion cells (Figure 1), in their most common form, consist of a graphite anode,…

Title: Deals with the development of a forward energy-based fuel consumption model of a conventional vehicle. Aim:  Build Simulink model using blocks and complete the vehicle model. Writing scripts in MATLAB to load all the variables required for running the Simulink model. Tabulate the fuel economy numbers (kmpl)…

1. Washing machine Aim: Implement control logic of a “washing machine” using Stateflow as per given sequence:  Conditions: If the power supply is available, the system gets activated  If the Water supply is not available, stop the process & indicate through LED Soaking time should be 200s…

Door Bell: Aim: Make a Simulink model of Doorbell using a solenoid block. Conditions: The switch is closed for 2 seconds and then released. Blocks used in the Model: Pulse Generator Scope Switch Battery Solenoid Simulink-PS converter PS-Simulink converter Ideal Translational Motion Sensor Mechanical Translational…

Aim: To write a code in MATLAB to parse the NASA Thermodynamic data file and then calculate Thermodynamics properties, Molecular Weight and Plot the nature of the thermodynamics properties of various species. Objectives: 1. To write a function that calculates Enthalpy, Entropy and Specific Heat using the NASA polynomials…

Aim: To stimulate the Rankine Cycle and plot the corresponding T-S and H-S plots using MATLAB. Objective: Calculate the state points of the Rankine Cycle based on given inputs. Plot the corresponding T-S and H-S plots for the given set of inputs. Given: Input Values: Turbine Inlet temperature = 400° C Turbine…

Aim: To write a code in MATLAB to optimise the stalagmite function and find the global maxima of the function Genetic Algorithm (GA): GA is a search-based optimization technique based on the principles of Genetics and Natural Selection. It is frequently used to find optimal or near-optimal solutions to difficult problems.…

Aim: To write codes on MATLAB for stimulation of the Simple Pendulum. The second-order differential equation is used to solve the simple pendulum stimulation problem. 2nd Order Differential Equation d2Θ/dt2 + (b/m)*(dΘ/dt) + (g/L)*sinΘ = 0 Where, b = damping, m = mass, g = gravity, L = length Let Θ…

https://youtu.be/u21Z6iL-Q24 % forward kinematics of 2R robotic arm with animation clear all close all clc % Inputs l1 = 1; % length of 1st arm l2 = 0.5; % length of 2nd arm theta1 = linspace(0,90,10); theta2 = linspace(0,90,10); ct = 1 ; for i = 1:length(theta1) THETA1 = theta1(i); for j = 1:length(theta2) THETA2 = theta2(j);…