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Re: 3481 Teaser Photos of 2015 EL TORO
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Originally Posted by JamesCH95
In your arm structure I notice that there are no triangles, only quadrilaterals. Thus the structures strength and stiffness is driven largely by the joints of the structures and not the beams themselves.
A very basic video on the importance of triangles in structures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvk_SiFGMZI |
Oh okay... you're talking about our 2015 tower design... we know about "triangulate" structure design as evidenced by the tower design in our 2012 bot THE ADMIRAL II (see below picture).
We we just call them angle-trusses or horizontal-trusses.
We went with horizontal-trusses this year because we wanted to keep visuals as clean as possible for the driver/operator through the tower to the manipulator at the end of the arm.
Believe me you cannot twist that structure with any force experienced in this year's game play and if it needed it we would have added angle-trusses for sure... ;-)
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