Team Pueo has been pretty delinquent with our blog posts and detailing our design, but here are some pretty pictures of FEA to tide you over. This FEA analysis lists our displacement at a loading of 2500lbf which should be about 8 times worse than our max direct loading in flight. This was a basic …
Test Stand Design Review
Introduction The 2017-2018 Talon team is responsible for all aspects of testing besides the design of the engine itself. To safely test engine designs, we are going to build an engine testing facility. It will consist of a test stand and propellant feed system mounted on a trailer, a control center at a safe distance …
Our Approach to Heat Transfer
This’ll be the first time OTRA has posted an update on our website! Woohoo! Today I’d like to give a tidbit into where we are at in engine design. I won’t be covering everything we have, but I’d like to share a bit of how we approached the cooling and stresses in the combustion chamber. …