Sustainable Mobility System for Silicon Valley Project

This week and last week was the second presentation of our project. In our presentation I displayed my current progress in the column design, footing, as well as the trussing. We also presented our analysis through Ansys to show which parts will need to be revised. Currently I am on schedule and about halfway done in creating the drawings. I will now need to revise some of my current drawings, as well as create clamps and mounts for the top beam and track connections.

Milotek has not given us the full drawings on the vertical columns as well as the track yet. I have decided to start producing drawings for the trussing as well as creating a layout of the columns. So far, these are the designs I have created: The top shows the original design I had in mind for the cross bracing of the vertical supports. However, I realized that this will use a lot of material, and the manufacturing process of this would be extremely difficult. I decided to create the two below drawings, which feature multiple parts. The cross structure is reversible, so it can be manufactured/installed more easily. While there are more parts to be made in the second design, it prevents a lot of wasted materials as well as making it easier to manufacture. I have also started to work on the vertical columns for the track and have nearly finished. What's left is to create a clamp design that will support the horizontal beam to the vertical columns, as well as clam

Week 4 and 5 have been on presentations of the specific groups in the Spartan Superway project. Today, we signed an NDA with Futran to obtain their drawings for their project in South Africa. We will be using these drawings to understand the parts coming in and the overall construction of the railways. However, the drawings we received were outdated, so we will have to see next week whether or not there will be more drawings. For now, I will work on creating the guideways, vertical supports, and the footings of our track. So far, this will be a rough idea on how the footings and vertical supports will look, which can be seen below. The vertical columns will be fitted in place of these footings. Other designs have been looked into, and I may modify this as we move along with the project. For the railways, we are hoping to get them verified on which drawings we will actually be using so that we can modify and improve on the structural integrity of the tracks, along with add