After producing the first nose… we’ve produced a second and a third. All three were composed out of different materials. The first one was entirely made out of carbon, the second was made out of carbon covered with Twaron® aramides and the third was made out of an hybrid carbon- Twaron® aramide fibre. Besides that they all looked a little different, we believed that they also would react different upon a crash situation. Read more…
Today, our first nose was completed. Our nose is not only a nice piece of bodywork, but also serves as impact attenuator, or crash nose. The crash nose is obligatory on the car from the FSAE rules and all teams have to prove that the nose on the car meets all the rules. Therefore, we’re going to take our first 3 or 4 samples to Corus Ijmuiden to be crash tested on their testing facility. We’re going to make a couple of different noses, where we use different kinds of materials.
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We just got in our mould for the production of our full carbon fibre rims. We intend to produce at least 8 rims for the new car with these moulds. The carbon fibre rims will be more stiff than our old hybrid aluminium-carbon ones, and might be a little bit lighter. The mould was produced by the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, for which we would like to thank professor Adriaan Beukers!
Today, we received our brand new uprights. The upright is the part on which the brake system and spindle ,and thus the wheel, is attached. We want to thank NLR, and especially Joachim de Kruijk and his crew, for the production of these nice CNC milled parts. NLR produces, besides the uprights, our differential housing, outer inserts and spindles.
Due to rules changes of the Formula Student competition, the DUT09 team couldn’t re-use the old monocoque moulds. Therefore a new design was made and sent to Zeydon, who produced the corresponding moulds. Last week news arrived that the moulds were finished. Our Chief Chassis and Team manager didn’t hesitate and picked up the moulds today and placed them directly in the Laminating room. A good start of a promising production phase!
