Mechanical Engineering group design report (Hitch)
Final Design Report Guidelines
The final report for the group design project should include all the detail of your design in order for it to be built. It is also important that the report looks professional and is well presented. Any figures, tables and equations used in the report should be numbered and referred to in the text. The report should have page numbers and a table of contents at the beginning. As with all technical reports and theses, this design report should be written in third person (i.e. avoid using ‘I' or ‘we'). The report must be word-processed using A4 page size with a line spacing of 1.5 lines and a page margin of 2.54mm all around (use this document as an example). The font size should be:
Heading text: 14pt Bold Calibri or Times New Roman
Body text: 11pt Calibri or Times New Roman
The report should contain a group section and individual sections for each part:
Individual part sections
One section for each part, written by the group member responsible for the part (this will be individually marked)
Each section (max 5 pages must include):
- Engineering drawings:
o Isometric view (full page) - full component (i.e. full chassis or attachment assembly)
o First or third angle projection - state which and include all dimensions (full page). If your design has multiple parts, then just include one key component.
- Stress analysis (Solidworks Simulation)
o Image and description of boundary conditions.
o State how you have used simulation to inform your design (hint: use before and after simulations after design change or a table showing hour max stress and/or mass changes with subsequent designs.
- Materials and manufacturing specifications - for every part.
- Environmental considerations - for every part.
- Failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) - foreach individual's design area.
Design Project
https://www.dropbox.com/s/gugswm2eprm7uub/Hitch.zip?dl=0