Energy Invitational Test Day 5-4-2013
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Saturday, May 5, UCI hosted seven local high school race teams to test their cars for the Energy Invitational. It was impressive to see the quality of their work and the variety of their designs. Select this link to see photographs of the event on Facebook.
Tensegrity Linkage
/0 Comments/by deltaThis is a design concept that uses tensegrity beam elements as the bars of a large-scale linkage system for use in deployable structures for disaster relief. This animation is by Mark Plecnik.
W16 Veyron engine
/0 Comments/by deltaThis animation shows the W16 Bugatti Veyron engine with four cam-shafts actuating 64 valves, four on each of sixteen cylinders.
Cam actuation in a V8 engine
/0 Comments/by deltaThis animation shows the operation of the cam shaft, lifters and valves in a V8 engine.
Diesel engine animation
/0 Comments/by deltaThis animation shows the part by part assembly of a four cylinder diesel engine.