PSAS Launch Vehicle 3 "LV3" CAD Files
This is the repo for the LV3 airframe. This holds everything you need to know about making a rocket out of carbon fiber.
Todo:
This to-do list is probably more informative.
- Fin can - [ ] Practice the tip-to-tip on the existing fin can. - [ ] Finalize new fin frames. - [ ] Find out if we can water-jet the frames, and if it can be done sooner than the laser cutter is repaired.
- Nose
- Make templates for CF sections
- Someone needs to figure out how to unfold the molding surface to make the template. (use math or Solidworks)
- Machining
- Get threaded rods to Alex
- Get ball endmill to Alex
- Set up go-pro(s) to document machining
- Attempt a layup
- redo the tip CAD for the redesigned mold (Alex F.)
- machine the new tip
- Make templates for CF sections
- MFG procedures
- Add pictures to the MFG procedures.
- Review procedures (not Joe)
- Radome
- Make a FG layup.
- Perform EM testing
- Crush the FG layup
- Order strain gauges (not strictly necessary)
- Surface roughness
- Read AIAA paper (not gonna post it. You can email Joe if you want it.)
- Read NASA paper
- Make decision
- Convert black modules? Abandon blue modules?
- AIAA paper
- Write first draft of AIAA paper. (in progress)
- Figures
- add diagram/picture of the sandwich design
- add pictures of crushed FG module
- add pictures of the puncture failure
- add plot of the surface features
- add picture of layers, put alongside diagram
- add picture/CAD render of the cylindrical modules and/or whole rocket
- Sections
- write more detailed description of the modules
- write section on the materials
- write section on destructive testing
- find what the actual compressive FS is
- write section on the fins
- write section on the nose cone
- figure out how to cite the Beta Project funding
- Figures
- Get draft reviewed by other people
- Write first draft of AIAA paper. (in progress)
- Miscellaneous
- Write up suggestions for future ME PSAS groups to consider during thier project.
- Move all deliverable-related things from the Google Drive into this repo.
- Order more heat-shrink tape (non-perforated) (Dunstone hi-shrink tape)
- Schedule tensile test with Chinh
Relavant Deadlines
- AIAA paper: August. 18 8pm EST (hard deadline; submit before this)
- Rocket launch: October ~15
Team Members
LV3 team members, please add your name to this list, so we know who is able to push to this repository:
Person | Role |
---|---|
Joe Shields | project coordination; MFG; paper |
Leslie Elwood | nose; materials; paper |
Alex Farias | MFG; design |
Ian Zabel | design; modelling |
Calvin Young | Oven controller |
David Edwards | MFG |
Alex Kollen | ??? |
Jorden Rolland | ??? |
Katia | machining |
Marie House |
If you aren't allowed to push, send Andrew your Github username and ask him to give you access. (This is different from getting added to the PSAS "organization".)
What and where
|-- cad holds the Solidworks files for all the machined parts
| |-- finCan
| |-- module
| |-- nose
| |-- radome
| `-- railSled
| `-- CAM G code for the rail sled
| |-- Base
| |-- Neck
| `-- Trunk
|-- doc all pure documentation
| |-- aiaa-3.6.1 LaTeX template for AIAA
| |-- extAbstract extened abstract for the AIAA paper
| |-- img image resources for documentation
| |-- mfg step-by-step instructions for manufacturing
| |-- paper the conference paper we're submitting to AIAA Space
| `-- updates bi-monthlyish status updates on the project
|-- sim simulations and calculations
| |-- DATCOM
| | |-- case
| | | |-- LV3 case for the LV3 airframe (not complete)
| | | `-- exMiG
| | |-- doc DATCOM documentation
| | `-- exlinux example DATCOM cases
| |-- ORK open rocket models
| | `-- prev
| |-- OpenFOAM CFD models
| | `-- LV3\_LD-Haack model of the 1:5 nose cone
| | `-- rcf_100 100-node-long mesh
| | |-- 0 initial conditions
| | |-- constant fluid properites
| | `-- system simulation parameters
| |-- plots plots of the open rocket data
| |-- reductions reductions of the openrocket simulations
| `-- simData output of the openrocket simulations
`-- test data from physical tests on modules
`-- profilometer surface roughness data