(Mar 15, 2018 - Mar 17, 2018)
Design Problem Statement:
During ice hockey play professional and community rink players incur major shoulder, head, neck and spinal injuries due to less flexibility and concrete feels of ice hockey dasher board, which necessitates a need to redesign it by increasing it's give to the players without manipulating puck movement, thereby reducing player's injuries.
Individual contribution:
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I came up with a mechanism to compress the two boards of ice hockey dasher board with a medium & high density foams analogous spring dasher pot system.
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Performed 3d modeling and redesigning of ice hockey 'Dasher Board 2.0' with the a split cap and compression spring with right tolerance.
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Simulated non-linear ANSYS FEA of the foam to increase the deflection to 11 mm.
3D model: Dasher Board 2.0
Non-linear ANSYS FEA:
Compression deformation testing:
