This is the wayside power team. We are tasked with the design, manufacturing, and presentation of a full-scale third rail power system prototype to distribute power to a moving 'bogie'.
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Last Wednesday the group was tasked to redesign or improve the third rail power delivery system for the full-scale bogie. Our team consists of seven members that include two seniors in materials engineering and 6 seniors majoring in mechanical engineering. The group discussed the current design issues, ideas, and design requirements to prepare for the project proposal. The major points of interest included material properties and wear analysis of the third rail and shoe, finding the possible current, voltage, and power delivery amounts, and mostly how to set up a non-contact to sudden contact mechanism. Our team is concentrating on the third rail system only instead of the third rail and power system. This week we were able to set up communications using Slack and Shared Drive. We also had a Zoom meeting just to catch up on deliverables for the proposal. On the meeting on Wednesday, we set up a weekly meeting time for discussions and administrative work. This will occur each week on Thursdays from 12pm to 1pm. Today we set up Shared Drive and a group email for future use with communications to vendors. We discussed setting up Blogspot and research on deliverables.
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| The current third rail contact shoe design. Taken from Spring 2019 Presentation |
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