Week 8 - Challenge 1 - Base Bracket Design

TITLE: Advanced Sheet Metal Design Using NX Cad Challenge 1 Casing Design OBJECTIVE: To design a Casing with the help of NX advance sheet metal. INTRODUCTION: NX Sheet Metal provides a set of tools within the NX design environment that allows for simple and fast design of sheet metal parts, dependent on their material…

AIM: Assemble and apply GD&T to the butterfly valve assembly drawing. Model: Isometric View: Front View: Top View: Side View: Sectional View: Drawing: CONCLUSION:

AIM: To create the A Pillar Design with the master section given as the intersection sketch with the Class A surface and create the tooling axis and perform the Draft analysis for the final solid part. CLASS A SURFACE: Class A is an aesthetic surface with the highest quality finish. Most Class A Surfaces for…

AIM: Create the individual part files and then create a complete assembly of those part files in the assembly workbench. Also create a 2D drawing using drafting tool. MODEL DRAWING 1: Create the individual parts as follows. Body 1: Body 2: Body 3: Body 4: Body 5:  ASSY: DRAWING PICS:   MODEL DRAWING 2: Create…

 AIM: Create the Door Trim Lower Plastic component through the given Class-A surface. To begin with, the tooling axis for the given Class-A Surface should be created meeting the requirements of the draft angle and at the end perform the Draft analysis on the model.  Create the Heat Stakes and the…

AIM: Create the Dog House for the Door Trim considering the design rules mentioned in the video. Consider the thickness of the part to be 2.5 mm. THEORY: Dog house is an engineering feature used in plastic trim design. Dog houses are used as supporting feature. Sometimes other engineering features…

 AIM: Create the rib for the Drill Handle considering the design rules mentioned below, Create the Screw boss for the Drill Handle considering the design rules mentioned in the video.  General Guidelines for Bosses:   Draft  - 0.5 degrees on the walls of boss   Thickness - …

AIM: Create the Core and cavity blocks for the switch bezel. PROCEDURE: * Before we start designing the core and cavity, It is suggested to perform a draft analysis on the solid part. * Now for core design, we have taken the boundary of class A surface, and extrapolated it. Trim it with Class C Surface. Now further trim,…

 AIM: Create the Door Trim Plastic component through the given Class-A surface. To begin with, the tooling axis for the given Class-A Surface should be created meeting the requirements of the draft angle and at the end perform the Draft analysis on the model.  Take the Thickness of the component to be 2.5…

AIM: Create the Bumper Plastic component through the given Class-A surface. To begin with, the tooling axis for the given Class-A Surface should be created meeting the requirements of the draft angle and at the end perform the Draft analysis on the model.  Take the Thickness of the component to be 3 mm. GIVEN: Class…

AIM: Create the Coin Holder Plastic component through the given Class-A surface. To begin with, the tooling axis for the given Class-A Surface should be created meeting the requirements of the draft angle and at the end perform the Draft analysis on the model.  Take the Thickness of the component to be 2.5 mm GIVEN:…

AIM: Create the Switch Bezel Plastic component through the given Class-A surface. To begin with, the tooling axis for the given Class-A Surface should be created meeting the requirements of the draft angle and at the end perform the Draft analysis on the model.  Take the Thickness of the component to be 2.5 mm GIVEN:…

AIM: Create the Base Bracket Plastic component through the given Class-A surface. To begin with, the tooling axis for the given Class-A Surface should be created meeting the requirements of the draft angle and at the end perform the Draft analysis on the model.  Thickness of Plastic Part - 2.5 mm GIVEN: The below…

AIM: To design the back door of the car and  make the inner panel for the back door and also design the necessary reinforcements. Car Back Door and Components: The back door is a hinged door/tailgate at the rear of the vehicle. It may be used for loading and unloading cargo, or to get passengers in and out, in…

AIM / OBJECTIVE: For the given roof styling. Create an ASSEMBLY by developing the essential flanges for the outer roof and creating the reinforcements. Provide appropriate dimensions and check for Draft analysis. Do a curvature study on the roof and perform calculations to determine the position of the Bow-roofs. INTRODUCTION:…

AIM: Create the drip area, Sill, Bumper, Baffle(Splash), and A-Pillar mount using the given fender skin and master drawing. THEORY: Fender: Fender is the American English term for the part of an automobile, motorcycle or other vehicle body that frames a wheel well. Its primary purpose is to prevent sand, mud, rocks, liquids,…

AIM: Calculate the Wheel Arch gap at required points and check whether the car passes the European standard. OBJECTIVES: *explaining the different fender regulations                     *Add snapshots of measurements…

AIM/ OBJECTIVE: Use the Section from your Hood design and calculate the Section Modulus and Come up with a new section that has an improved Section Modulus compared to the previous one, and mention what changes you made which resulted in the increased strength. THEORY: -Section Modulus: Section modulus is a geometric property…

AIM: To design car hood in NX using given master section and parameters. INTRODUCTION: The hood or bonnet is the hinged cover over the engine of motor vehicles. Hoods can open to allow access to the engine compartment (or trunk on rear-engine and some mid-engine vehicles) for maintenance and repair. In design perspective…

->AIM / OBJECTIVES: Study the underbody coatings used in automobile industry.  ->THEORY: Underbody Coating is a sprayable coating, which protects the under surface of the vehicle from corrosion. Underbody coating provides long term protection from corrosion to car's underbody. It also protects parts like internal…

BENCHMARKING: Benchmarking typically is the practice of comparing business processes and performance metrics to industry bests and best practices from other companies. Dimensions typically measured are quality, time and cost. The point of benchmarking is to identify internal opportunities by studying and analyzing competitor…

AIM / OBJECTIVE: To compare the performance of 3 types of beams under load. INTRODUCTION: Comparison of how a structure of different material will act under a constant load has become a necessity. As, it helps us in understanding whether that structure made of a particular material will satisfy the requirements or not.…

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                                             MODELING AND RENDERING OF AMERICAN CHOPPER AIM & OBJECTIVE: To model an American Chopper using Solidworks and render it to create a photorealistic view. INTRODUCTION: This project explains the designing and modeling of American Chopper parts and how the assembly of these individual…

AIM: Design and Simulate Thermal Modeling of battery pack. OBJECTIVE: 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. BLOCKS USED: * Powergui: To Set simulation type, simulation parameters,…

AIM: To develop a mechanical design of a battery pack of capacity 18KWh using cell ANR26650M1-B. THEORY: Battery: The battery considered for the construction of the battery pack is Lithium Ion Battery. This is considered as the battery of future. Its negative electrode is lithiated carbon intercalation material instead…

AIM: 1. Simulate the 3 test cases from harness dashboard and write a detailed report on the results 2. What is coulomb counting? Refer to the above model and explain how BMS implements coulomb counting for SOC estimation ? THEORY: Lithium - ion battery packs are widely used energy storage systems in electric vehicles.…

AIM : Prepare a table which includes materials & chemical reactions occurring at the anode and cathode of LCO, LMO, NCA, NMC, LFP and LTO type of lithium ion cells.Give your detailed explanation on it. and Compare the differences between each type of Li+ion batteries based on their characteristics THEORY: A Lithium-ion…

AIM: To develop Adaptive Cruise Control feature as per the Requirement Document using MATLAB Simulink, following all the MBD related processes: Requirement Tagging & Traceability, SLDD creation, Configuration Parameter changes, Model Advisor check & Code Generation. OBJECTIVE: Developing Adaptive Cruise Control…

AIM: To create the model Vehicle Direction Determination as per given requirements. OBJECTIVES: Development of MATLAB Simulink model as per requirement. Tag the requirements to the simulink model; tagging requirement 1 & requirement 2 to their corresponding subsystems is fine. MBD compliant changes, Data Dictionary…

AIM: To carry out a system - level simulation of an All - Terrain Vehicle (ATV). THEORY: An All- Terrain Vehicle(ATV) also known as Light Utility Vehicle(LUV) or a Quad Bike(sometimes only Quad) as defined by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI); is a vehicle that travels on low pressure tires, with a seat…

AIM: To create a Rankine Cycle Simulator form given input and reading the data from stadard thermodynamic library of steam table. OBJECTIVE: To create a Rankine Cycle simulator in MATLAB. To calculate the state point using function XSteam. Work Done and Efficiency of the Rankine Cycle. To plot T-S & H-S curve for given…

AIM Implement control logic of a “washing machine” using Stateflow as per given sequence:  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 followed by Washing time of 100s. Then…

Challenge 2a) AIM: To make a Simulink model of doorbell using solenoid block. Considering the switch is closed for 2 seconds and then released. THEORY: The core conventional doorbell is a electromagnet. Electromagnets work on a very simple principle, running electric current through a solenoid (a device comprised of a…

Aim: write a code in MATLAB to parse the NASA thermodynamic data file provided. Write a function that extracts the 14 coefficients (File Parsing: meaning extracting the useful information from a file and utilizing that information for our program) and calculate the enthalpy, entropy and specific heats for all the species…

Aim & Objective:  To study about Genetic Algorithm, calculate the global maxima of stalagmite function using Genetic Algorithm in Matlab and plot graphs based on the studies. Theory: Concept of Genetic Algorithm: A genetic algorithm (GA) is a method for solving both constrained and unconstrained optimization problems…

Aim: To Simulate the motion of a ODE representing the equation of motion of a simple pendulum with given constraints. Theory: Simple pendulum can be described as a device where its point mass is attached to a light inextensible string and suspended from a fixed support. The vertical line passing through the fixed support…

Objective: To simulate the forward kinematics of a 2R Robotic Arm using Matlab. Theory: A robotic arm is a type of Mechanical arm, usually programmable with similar functions resembling to a human arm. The arm is usually a combination of many links or linkages completing the desired mechanism for a machine to work. The…