Week Two

We started lab section htis week with an overview of the math behind this project.  As a class, we derived the equations to relate stress, strain, modulus of the material, force applied, moment of inertia, and length.  We then created a simple Matlab script to plot displacement versus the estimated forces using inputted properties of the flexural test.  We took a trip up to the sixth floor of Bossone to see the Three Point Flexural Test machine, so that we could know the minimum length that can fit on the machine.  We rounded this out by creating a simple CREO model to test on the machine next week.



Our simple  model