Full Track Assembly

This week I was able to fully assemble the track which will be shown in figure 1.  I still need to run finite element analysis in order to understand how deformations will happen and where support posts will be needed the most.  I also did FEA on the U-bracket we designed to see how it would perform which is shown in figure 2.  From what it looks, the way it is currently mounted would cause one side to have more stress.  We might have to consider another way to mount these brackets.  For both track and U-bracket, aluminum 6061 was used to run the test. One thing that has not been looked into is other material use. I've looked into it briefly but have not read enough to actually make comparisons.

Figure 1: Full track assembly

Figure 2: FEA on U-Bracket