Season 2017 slowly goes by, but we’ll remember it as it is marked by many significant events. At the competitions we’ve gained vast experience, yet valuable friendships that will make significant contibution for the teams future.
One of those is, with no doubt, collaboration with Springer. This german publisher is globaly famous for showing great support to the research and science community and it has more than 200 Nobel Prize winners among the authors of it’s books and journal articles. Springer recognized our teams aspirations to continuously improve and gave us five amazing books on mechanical engineering and automotive industry.
The Finite Element Method and Applications in Engineering Using ANSYS – will help us analyze engineering problems that we encounter, using the advanced ANSYS program. Regarding the nature of the problems in the Formula Student projects, ANSYS represents powerful mean that can solve them, and it is used by all our subteams.
Reverse Engineering – will teach us all about the process of discovering the technological principles of an object or component through analysis of its structure and function. Formula consists out of many parts that someone has developed before you, right? It is crucial to get to the essence of that design so you would be able to improve the component.
Particulate Composites – will get us into the world of composites all the way to the smallest details in the material engineering. The goal is to continue to upgrade methods of using composites on our vehicle and of component manufacturing.
Bosch Automotive Electrics and Automotive Electronics – complete reference guide to automotive electrics and electronics has made our Electronic team the happiest. This season, they will focus their work mostly on catching up with the automotive industry standards and in that way they will improve existing vehicle systems and apply new ones with minimal risk.
Vehicle Dynamics – detailed description of the automobiles dynamic, it is hard to imagine a better gift for Formula Student team. This book is very thorough, it presents models of different complexity, and it is focused on validation of simulation results and getting mathematical model from the real cars. We are delighted to have it!
Springer gave it’s much appreciated contribution to our project and we feel really hopeful about our future cooperation. Now, all we’ve got to do is read the materials and apply our newly obtained knowledge through brand new ideas and projects! We’ll start right away!
