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This week I worked on finalizing the presentation by adding initial hand sketches for design work, and practicing the presentation. I also began working on FEA of the failsafe in order to determine whether or not the initial design would withstand the impact forces of the bogie falling. These impact forces can be seen in figure 1.

figure 1. impact force calculations. Once I knew the force of the impact, I used Solidworks FEA to come up with the stresses within each failsafe. This can be seen in figure 2.

Figure 2. Von Mises Stress within the Failsafe Overall, this was a productive week.