Thunder (Human Powered Vehicle)
Supervisor(s):
Dr. Amr Serag
Team
Members:
Ahmed Mohsen Osman
Heba Risk
Hossam Hamdy
Ihab Rashed
Moataz Atallah
Ramy Fakhry
General
Objectives:
To design and manufacture an ultra-streamlined human powered land vehicle to
participate in international racing competitions.
- Structural design using finite elements analysis (FEA)
- Dynamic analysis of streamlined land vehicle
- Aerodynamic design and analysis for streamlined vehicles using computational
fluid dynamics (CFD)
- Fiberglass reinforced plastics (FGRP) manufacturing
- Braking design and types
- Steering systems design and analysis
- Aluminum alloys, properties and welding techniques
- Human ergonomics, which is the study of the compatibility of the machine
design with the user needs (Webster's Dictionary)
- Machine design: roller chain design
- Modeling
Achievements:
Most of the set requirements were almost successfully met. The final testing
stage revealed very important results. Based on the available financial and
technical resources in Egypt, the project is considered satisfactory. One
important factor that contributed to the acceptance of the quality of the
produced work is that the project, being a capstone project, gathered several
areas of engineering sciences, such as: mechanics of materials, materials
selection, advanced manufacturing, modeling, fluid mechanics, vehicle dynamics,
machine design, and other areas.
