Northern Arizona Progressive Design
C/o Jason Mendoza
901 s. o’leary st. #111
flagstaff, Az 86001

Phone: 520-518-0049
Email: bmw34@dana.ucc.nau.edu

  Design Approach

NAPD Team Members:

 

Team Leader—L. Rus Payne

Lead Design Engineer—Daniel Cole

Design Process Coordinator—Rick Huisman

Communications Officer—Beau Wilson

Financial Officer—Jason Mendoza

In order to formulate an optimized solution NAPD took the following actions in the Design Approach

 

·          Determine a cause of failure

– Experimentally

– Analytically

·          Determine strength of dielectric

·          Determine loads to dielectric

·          Design to solve the specific problem (K.I.S.S.) with emphasis on

·          Logistics

·          Material strength

·          Implementation

·          Compact

 

Below is a connector that we cracked during testing. 

Above is a picture of the Finite Element Analysis done on the connector

Team Members  -  Client   -  Project Description  -  Design Approach   -  Testing  -  Solution  -  Pictures