Aerospace Engineering Senior Design Competition

In my last semester at Syracuse University, a design competition was held amongst the senior aerospace engineering students.  Both a bottle rocket filled with water and pressurized air, and a radio-controlled aircraft that carries the bottle rocket as a payload are designed by the students.

The objective of the competition was to score the most lap-seconds.  Laps were counted by how many laps the radio-controlled aircraft flew around the figure eight course.  Seconds were counted by how many seconds the rocket was aloft for.  These individual scores were multiplied to obtain the team's final score.

The project's development was broken up into three phases: Conceptual Design Review (CDR), Preliminary Design Review (PDR), and Final Design Review (FDR).  However, for the sake of brevity, I will only show the product of my personal work from the final design.

Aircraft Performance Model & Respective Algorithms

FIGURE 1.  CAD Model of Original Aircraft Assembly

FIGURE 2.  CAD Model of Wing

FIGURE 3.  Closeup of Wing Rib

FIGURE 4.  Wing Meshing

FIGURE 5.  Deflection Contour from Wingtip Loading Test Simulation

FIGURE 6.  Stress Contour from Wingtip Loading Test Simulation

FIGURE 7.  CAD Model of Fuselage

FIGURE 8.  Fuselage Meshing

FIGURE 9.  Displacement Contour from Fuselage Loading Simulation

FIGURE 10.  Stress Contour from Fuselage Loading Simulation

FIGURE 11.  Aircraft Assembly Demonstration

FIGURE 12.  SolidWorks Aircraft Assembly

FIGURE 13.  SolidWorks Aircraft Assembly with Transparent Skin

FIGURE 14.  Isometric View of Overhauled Fuselage Design

FIGURE 15.  Side View of Overhauled Fuselage Design

FIGURE 16.  Aircraft Fuselage Design II Render

FIGURE 17.  Front View of Aircraft Fuselage Design II Render

FIGURE 18.  Side View of Aircraft Fuselage Design II Render

FIGURE 19.  Closeup of Tail and Actuator in Aircraft Fuselage Design II Render