STRUCTURES

Contents

Design Briefing
Structural Design Process
Conceptual Design
Pod Design Flowchart
Free Body Diagram
Sectional Views and CAD Model
Components
Analysis and Simulations
Economic Viability
Pod Structural Safety
Future Goals

Design Briefing
Plan for utmost passenger safety by keeping the
vision of playing a part in helping cement the
Fifth Mode of Transport.
Deliver an exemplary pod structural design by
solely relying on available technology.
Keep ease of manufacturing a central theme
aiding the pod structures capability to go into full
production.

HyperShock Structural Design Process

Requirement
s&
Contraints

Conceptual Design

Free Body
Diagram

Sizing &
Material
Selection

Preliminary Design

Economic
Viability

CAD
Modeling

Detailed Design

Analysis and
Simulations

Conceptual Design
Requirements
Safety
Differential Pressure
Pod Modular Section
and Scalability
Predictability of
structural behavior
External Loads/Forces

Constraints
Available Resources and
manpower
Manufacturability/Assembly
Weight of Structure
Cost
Design to prototype turn
around time

Pod Design Flowchart

Loading
Conditions

Stress Analysis
of Skin

Analysis of
different Beam
Sections for
Stringers

Determination
of Skin
Thickness

Buckling
Analysis for
Stringers

Optimization of
number of
Frames/Stringer
s

Shear Force and

Bending
Moment
Diagrams

Choice of Load
Bearing
Members

Optimization of
Bulkheads
(Improved
Strength)

Free Body Diagram

Sectional Views: Stringers and Frames

Sectional Views

Sectional Views: Floor

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Sectional Views: Bulkhead

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CAD Model

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CAD Model (Bulkhead)

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CAD Model (Frames)

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CAD Model ( Base)

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Components
Component

Bulkhead

Mass
(kg)

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Floor

l = 143.75
w = 47.3
t = 0.25

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Stringers

w = 1.5
h = 1.0
l = 47.9
w = 3.5
t = 1.5
t = 0.329

Frame: C
channel
Skin

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Dimension
(inches)

t = 0.25
h = 39

Materi
al

AL707
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Sub
Component

Stiffener

Cross Section
I Beam

L Beam

Stiffener

C Channel
L Channel

NA

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AL202
4
NET STRUCTURAL WEIGHT : 824.9kg

NA

Dimension
(inches)
t = 0.15
h =1.89
w1 = 0.63
w2 = 0.31

t = 0.07
w = 1.57
l = 11.66
h = 1.0
w = 1.5
t =0.125
h = 1.0
w = 1.5
t = 0.125

Structural Analysis
Free Body Diagram
Hand Calculations and Free Body Diagram.(talk
about what hand calculations we did, for which
part and why)
Preliminary Sizing
Deformations and Stresses were predicted from
FE analysis using ansys.
Future work: Optimization and final sizing.

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2D Meshing for Pod

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Economic Viability
Modular design to simplify manufacturing and
assembly process.
Repeatable Module attachment provides
cheaper cost of manufacturing.
Emphasis on Scalability.

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Pod Structural Safety

The following structural members are included for pod safety
1. Bulkhead:

Front and Aft bulkheads are designed with Aluminum 7075. They are
placed between the passenger and compressor compartments.
Designed to sustain expected loads that result in the event of a crash.
Operational differential pressure is 7psi whereas designed differential
pressure is 11psi giving a factor of safety of 1.57

2. Floor:

It is supported by C beams and L stiffener of aluminum alloy to

provide longitudinal and lateral structural stability.
Designed to sustain loads transmitted by frames of the structure, and
prevent the floor beams from penetrating into the passenger
compartment in the event of a crash.

3. Landing Gear:

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It will be deployed in the case of an emergency failure of levitation

mechanism.
Each landing gear strut is designed to take three times(3gs) of total

Future Goals

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Run Finite Element analysis for all load cases.

Crash test analysis of the pod.
Prediction of vibrational environment.
Final design and optimization.

Thank You

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