This week, the Full Scale Team once again met up with Ron before he left for his trip to Europe in a couple of hours. The meeting consisted of news from his contact from South Africa. We were able to see pdf's of CAD drawings from the company, Milotek. With these pdf's the team was able to come up with some ideas as to how we should try to create our own Superway. A big thing that the Milotek company had which our team never really thought about, was the design for the footing, support posts and beams for the Superway.
After our meeting with Ron, the team had many discussions about the design of the support beams, footings and posts. Which brought us to a various number of questions:
1. How would we want to design the beam?
2. Would we need precautions around these posts in populated areas?
3. What types of protections to the posts and surrounding unknowns are needed?
4. Do we want these posts to essentially "break-away"?
Many questions came about, but we haven't come up with a single answer yet.
By the end of this week, we decided to have each member of the team create their own prototype of the support posts through the ideas given to us in class and brief research about the topic.
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