Senior research project from my Probabilistic Mechanical Design course. This class was extremely interesting in its comparison between factors of safety found both deterministically and probabilistically. In this paper I examine the probability of failure for a mountain bike frame made of carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP). I thoroughly enjoy mountain biking which in turn helped me to pick this project. Structural analysis is one of the most interesting topics to me so I certainly enjoyed this research project along with learning to use NESSUS to find probabilities of failure.
A Probabilistic Approach to Failure and Fatigue of Composite Materials.
Senior project for Controls of Dynamic Systems lab. This class used many of the concepts learned in systems and vibrations and applied them to many things including PLCs. For my project, I used an arduino coupled with a parallax ultrasonic distance sensor to create a motion detector that alerted the user via text message anytime their mailbox was opened. I chose this project after having mail stolen multiple times from my home. The ultrasonic sensor sends out a frequency to measure the distance of some object placed in front (mailbox door) and once the door moves, a signal is sent back to the computer which connects to www.telapi.com using the python script. This in turn notifies the end user with a text message that their mailbox door has been opened. The technical project write up along with the arduino code and python script can be found below:
Arduino code
Python script that runs on host computer
Project write up