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Thanks to the Art Institute of California - Orange County for helping us out with body designs!!! - From all of us at UCI Racecar Team Initial design: Secondary design (exploded): Secondary design with color:
UCI Racecar's collaboration with the Art Institute of California - Orange County: Here we see the modeling a cardboard model of Zeta's body, which allows us to get basic dimensions for our body design. Assisted by Art Institute - Orange County members: Truman Pollard, Jeffrey Alvarez Cruz & Bingley Kuo From left to right: Dean Baggs, Christina Faraci, Ting Hung Yu, Jesus Ramos, Jeffrey Alvarez Cruz, Bingley Kuo Chassis fully covered by the cardboard model:
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We will be updating you with NEW posts and updates for our Zeta racecar, which is currently being manufactured! Please contact Professor Michael J. McCarthy ([email protected]) if you are interested in coming to the event. This year, the competition increased with more universities, local highschools, and inventors joining the race. Please check out the promo video for the event as well! Check out the point of view shot from the driver in Delta. Check out the OC Weekly's coverage on the Youth Expo that UCI Racecar participated in by featuring our racecars, Epsilon, Delta, and Gamma.
Please check out the video, but don't blink, you might miss our 2 seconds of fame. Here is our all-electric race car, Gamma, showing off its speed. The best lap was 5.8 seconds with 1.0227 lateral G's.
We certainly expect more improved numbers with new motors powering the front wheels! On April 13th, 2012, the UCI Racecar Team will feature all three cars, Epsilon, Delta, and Gamma, at the OC Fairground's Youth Expo from 9am to 1pm. The exhibition will also feature some of the local high school students' work on their race cars that they hope to race in the Energy Invitational 2012 on May 20th, 2012. Please come check out the cars and let us show what we have been doing all year long. There will be rides and food for entertainment as well. It's for one day only, so don't miss out on this chance! STAR-CCM+ v7’s new overset mesh feature cuts down the analysis workflow, opening up a range of new applications. (Source: cd-Adapco) Tighter integration between CAD and CAE is an ongoing trend -- one we’ve been hearing more about as engineering organizations call out for solutions to address mounting product complexity and escalating development costs. In response to surging user demand, vendors on both sides of the aisle (CAD and CAE, that is) have been steadily stepping up to the plate to deliver new platforms that meld capabilities from these historically very separate and siloed design toolsets.
The most recent example of bridging the CAD/CAE gap comes from CD-Adapco, a provider of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and Computer Aided Engineering (CAD) software. The latest release of the company’s STAR-CCM+ multidisciplinary software builds on the company’s strategy to let users drive CAE from any of the popular CAD environments, allowing for less back and forth between systems, and, ultimately, more widespread use of simulation. In a presentation introducing the new STAR-CCM+ v7 platform, Jean-Claude Ercolanelli, CD-Adapco’s senior vice president, product management, reiterated the company’s commitment to support a growing number of CAD readers for importing 3D models, in addition to other improvements like faster and easier meshing and the CAD-client model checker that debuted in the previous Star-CCM+ v6.06 release. Along with the closer ties to the CAD world, the initial STAR-CCM+ v7.02 release (there will be three releases annually) includes a number of other capabilities designed to offer insight into product behavior and performance, and help companies increase product quality and reliability. One of the newer, more interesting capabilities is overset meshes, a paradigm shift in how simulation is handled in the tool. Required when simulating bodies with extreme range of motion or for parametric design studies, this new capability cuts down the analysis workflow by allowing one mesh to be placed on top of another without the need for remeshing or morphing. Company officials are touting it for marine, automotive, or aerospace applications. A new solution history capability helps engineers review and better explore the analysis results space. With this new feature, users can better facilitate design reviews by recording, storing, comparing, and visualizing results from different analysis types, while also recording results from multiple simulations into a single simulation history file so they can easily be replayed. The third major enhancement is a new interface type called indirect mapped interfaces, which is designed to ease the process around setting up CHT cases. Article by Beth Stackpole For years, the high price tag of professional CAD software licenses has been a real sticking point for engineers. With many of the leading packages priced upwards of $10,000 for a single license (and oftentimes, that's without all the extra modules), and with annual maintenance fees pushing costs up even higher, engineers in smaller companies, as well as solo practitioners, have either had to shut up and put up with the huge expense or be shut out from using professional CAD tools. SolidWorks and a coterie of other CAD tools knocked the price tag down a bit over the years, but most professional-grade programs can still run upwards of $5,000 for a single seat, and that's not including some of the more advanced functionality fast becoming mainstream like integrated simulation capabilities, sheet metal design functionality, and even some of the latest compliance and product analytics tools. Luckily, a bunch of new trends are converging to help address the high price tag around CAD, and give cost-conscious users some relief. New subscription pricing models, a spate of lower-cost programs like SpaceClaim, Kubotech, and Alibre, along with a flood of new open-source 3D CAD programs, are giving users a greater variety of choice when it comes to affordable CAD options. Even some of the big CAD players are getting in on the action. For example, Siemens PLM Software has taken steps to make its lower-end CAD tool, Solid Edge, more price competitive, particularly for small and mid-size companies, the education market, and enthusiasts. One of the more interesting programs it launched recently was an alliance with Local Motors, a new car company predicated on this notion of community co-creation (some would call it crowdsourcing). The pair is offering Solid Edge Design1, a subscription license of its base technology to the Local Motors community for $19.95 a month. The pair expanded its partnership early this year to offer the Local Motors community a choice of options, including versions with higher-end, professional-level drafting and history-based modeling, FEA capabilities, sheet metal modeling, wire harness design functions, and other capabilities for fees ranging from $99 a month per user to $299 a month, depending on the configuration. Article from Design News - Beth Stackpole Here is our very own, Smitty, showing us the basics on MIG welding. For those of you guys who have yet to try welding, please watch this video and try it out for yourself (with permission of course)! Practice makes perfect! Here's our very own Smitty teaching us how to use some of the tools in ET141. Although many of you guys find the content basic, it's important for all of us to remind ourselves how to use the tools properly so that they stay in good shape for a long time. Stay tuned for more videos, news blogs, and more each week! _Troy and Timel from Adams Motorsports Park come to UC Irvine to check out the FSAE team and cars! We are excited to see everyone at the UCI 3rd Energy Invitational Race on their track on May 20th! Hope all of you can make it out to see the awesomeness that will occur!
UCI Racecar Engineering is getting ready to present all of our vehicles at the 2012 Henry Samueli School of Engineering Winter Design Review!
Gamma, Delta, and Epsilon will be on display showing our new and exciting progressions that have been made since the last Design Review in the Fall. We plan to have the body and other components ready in Delta, while Gamma is still in progression. Epsilon will be making a cordial beauty appearance in ready-to-race trim. UCI racecar displayed at Imports@UCI 4th Annual car show. Epsilon was on display with its aerodynamic and sleek body in ready-to-race mode. Finished modeling an updated version of a wheel we plan on using for Delta during the Energy Invitational. Modeled by Chassis Team Lead, Rafael Trias. Check out that detail! _It's official. We are going to be in another car show on Saturday, February 11, 2012; and it's hosted by UC Irvine's fastest club on campus, Imports@UCI. Free admission and parking, prizes, free food and drink, free music and entertainment!It's gonna be a big event! See you all there! (:
We were at the L.A. Auto Show to promote student-based programs such as SAE with displays of racecars built by engineering students through a one-year to two-year program.
_After crossing our fingers and hoping it won't rain for the past few days, we got excited when we woke up this morning to be able to take our cars out for testing. _The beast lives on. In its previous life, it was an FSAE Baja Race Car way back when. _Final check up with the car and driver. _B-) _This is what it looks like sitting in Epsilon... for a short driver. __Skid pad run in Epsilon.
_Our team did a presentation in front of a review panel! B-) Group photo of most of the team. Actually barely 1/5th of the team. The rest are either inside (the Gamma Team doing their own separate presentation), or they ran off to get to the food first. Afterwards, we went to get our cars, half-scale model, and presentation boards! _ _He's very happy about seeing the Zeta half-scale completed. _Beginning the long hike to the Engineering Gateway Plaza. Gamma (yellow), Epsilon (copper), and Delta (black)
__We have 2 days to finish our half scale model for Zeta for our Fall Design Review on Friday! Not only that, we still have design projects, finals, homework, and lab reports to do. Busy all day, every day. _Getting into the night of fun as we measure, cut, file, fit, measure, cut, file, and weld the chassis together. All by hand. _Ok, well we had some help with cutting the tubes. _Some welding action. _A few hours later. Note the side impact members and the top part of the front bulkhead coming together!
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