Aims & Objectives
Aims
This project aims to investigate many aspects of wire/rod
network design and specification. It will attempt to either justify
the traditional techniques and technology in a scientific manner or
to devise new methods and models to enable better design and
specification. The project will consider not only the systems as a
whole but also the components that make up those systems with
particular focus on wire/rod terminations and tensioning devices.
The project will address issues of redundancy allowing for more
efficient design and manufacture.
Objectives
- Compile a consistent and coherent numerical parts
classification system of the HiMod range of rigging
components.
- Produce reliable stress/strain curves for the HiMod range of
rigging components.
- Use a combination of Finite Element models and fatigue testing
to highlight inherent design flaws in the HiMod range.
- Combine data from objectives 1, 2 and 3 to modify the designs
of the HiMod range with the aim of improving efficiency of
performance and manufacture.
- Produce a model of a guyed mast sufficiently complex to allow
the loading patterns of a yacht rig to be calculated.
- Specify, design, prototype and test a device capable of
protecting a rig from atypically high loads.