PF19

Manufacturing

PF19 during the welding process and post stress relief and powder coat.

Impact Attenuator

In order to ensure that the vehicle was safe and rules compliant we use a custom impact attenuator mounted to the front bulkhead. For my first full year on the team I was assigned the design, manufacturing, and testing of this safety system. In order to accomplish this I worked with a lab coordinator in the civil engineering department to perform a crush test of the impact attenuator. The data received from the test was run through a MATLAB script I made to determine maximum force, energy absorbed, and output displacement vs energy and displacement vs force diagrams for review by rules judges.