Assignment 3, 9/21/15 update

During the last meeting, on 9/16/15,  the bogie/fail safe team members all collaborated and exchanged idea about redesigning the bogie. The team came up with many different ideas about how we can proceed to design the fail safe around the existing bogie, eventually we all came to a conclusion that adding a secondary wheel to the bogie would be the most practical. We also agreed that the most amount of stress on the bogie is when it is switching rails. Jeffery Chau, member of steering team, had a sketch that was heavily detailed. His sketch involved a steering mechanism that would provide more support to the to the wheels relieving some of the stress. Though his idea was good, it would involve a redesign of the track which we would want to avoid because of costs. During this meeting I noticed how everyone had done a lot of research prior to the meeting and we were all discussing how other systems design fail safes. Most of the team members had looked into roller coasters because they will exhibit a lot more stress than bogie. At the end of the meeting we had all agreed that we would keep the bogie and railway system similar to previous years and then implement a fail safe system around the existing bogie. Now we need to further research into rollercoasters, gondolas, and other transportation systems because it will be beneficial for our design ideas.