Full-Scale Solar Team

As the semester is wrapping up, the Full-Scale Mounting team is finishing up their work while directing their energy to the Final Paper for ME 195a. The team will be finishing loose ends on several topics related to 1. Finalizing the velcro being used. 2. Cleaning up the Ansys simulation of the load 3. Condensing the final design down to a half model and flipping it opposite to have a East-West facing frame construction. 4. Cost Analysis and Bill Of Materials With these tasks in mind, the team is looking to be wrapped up for the semester after the paper. Time will be devoted over the break to brainstorm more ideas that have not been address yet. 12/3-12/7

Our main goal for this week was to focus mainly on our Presentation 3. We have fallen short on the last two presentations and worked diligently to provide a presentation that better represented our progress and work. We are still waiting on some FEA analysis of the canopy structure that will be done before the end of next week. We received great feedback from professor furman and will continue to get in contact with distributors for our parts as well as further improving our design for the solar canopy. Linked below is our presentation 3. https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Rl9ypaE9Y41PU3vRsNXmqauOT6JUMySnPYeoClkVhCk/edit?usp=sharing