During the Week of thanksgiving I did not manage to complete a lot of work for the superway as I had to catch up on another classes project and had a busy three day vacation. However, the weekend immediately afterwards was a very different story.
The first thing I did was create a streamlined SOLIDWORKS template to easily design bent sheets used for the column. With it one can quickly choose the unit system and sheet metal thickness, and tweak the external dimensions to immediately designs a sample sheet for new models. In addition, I also modified the template to generate a representation of the cement core that would be created for the given values and that could also accout for the interior tabs and the external gaps at the sheet intersections. Then, I used 4 of the sheet metal files and 1 of the concrete core files to make an assembly file that could be used for an ANSYS analysis. With these templates, I remade the parts and assembly for a 4 foot 1/8 inch sheet full scale beam, and two 4 foot half scale beams (with sheet thicknesses of 1/8 and 1/16 inches).
Lastly, I worked with the group to make the third presentation, which allowed me to show these new template files, as well as talk about new things I learned about the clamp system.
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