Use of a external agent to break incompatible substructures
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Schedule
- 19th December, 2014 : Submit final draft of incompatible substructure paper to Marco
- 30th November, 2014 : Finish results, create plots
Todo
Parameters
- Components
- Radius of each component: 25 mm
- Thickness of each component: 8 mm
- Radius of magnet: 1.5 mm
- Strength of magnet: N48
- Polyamide
- Container
- Radius of container: 125 mm
- Depth of container: 9 mm
- Material: Acrylic
- High inertia agent
- Radius
- Weight
- Shape
- Number of agents
- Shaker
- Mode: Orbital shaking
- Speed: 300 rpm
- Duration for shaking: until stable structures are formed
Variable(s)
- Number of components used in each experiment
Experiments
- Experiments without high inertia agent
- Probability of the formation of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 targets for increasing number of components
- Experiments with high inertia agent
- Probability of the formation of 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 targets for increasing number of components
Particulars of physical experiments (10 trials each)
- Photos of initial condition and final condition
- Assembly of target structures without high inertia agent
- Assembly of one, two, three, four and five target structure(s)
- Data to be collected: number of targets and number of incompatible substructures, time for steady state
- Assembly of one, two, three, four and five target structure(s)
- Assembly of target structures with high inertia agent
- Assembly of one, two, three, four and five target structure(s)
- Data to be collected: number of targets and number of incompatible substructures, time for steady state
- Assembly of one, two, three, four and five target structure(s)
- Results to show
- Improvement in yield when a high inertia agent is used to break incompatible substructures
