In 2004 & 2005 I participated in the Delft-University of technology Racing Team, or shortly said the DUTracing which participated in different formula student competitions. The aim is to give young undergraduate engineers the opportunity to design and build a racing car in a very challenging environment, and afterwards to race this car in a competition with different other universities. In that year the responsibility of the monocoque design and production was mine. I learned a lot in this year, and I would recommend everybody to do the same, because it is such a experience you will never forget
A link to there site; www.dutracing.nl
Some pictures
Nowadays, together with my first year's brother I'm again involved with the formula student project doing fundamental research on the producability of so called 'hollow stiffeners' while my brother is busy with the intake of the new DUT08 car. I will continue on this topic later on when I will publish a part of the research's results.
Some pictures about the hollow stiffeners production;
The 'express' production of quite difficult components produced by lathing and milling is becoming a part of the job now to. It consited for the moment of half-shafts and 'arb-levers', but probably multiple other parts will follow as the construction of the DUT08 is progressing.
Some pictures about the 'arb levers', which consited of lathing, milling, and a finischin lahting procedure. I made 2+1 of them, in about 6 hours.
