ya.. about that. checked the work, found that partner was using completely wrong values... fixed them and whattayaknow, things are all good!

JEA!

He's difficult to work with and just criticizes the work instead of trying to find out what is wrong... I'm with you on the units though, it just doesn't make any sense to me. I did not take FEA either, but the other person I'm working with did and says that they always used PSI for the lbm/(in sec^...

that was one of my questions as well... those are the units Pro/Mecanica lists the Ex and Ey be input as... I just assume that's PSI, this could be the issue maybe?

So I've been doing a lot of FEA simulations of 'skis' (wood core with fiberglass) lately, and a professor I was going over these with was convinced that the fiberglass properties I was using for these FEA simulation were incorrect. I used the properties listed directly from the manufactorer, so I re...

That is awesome. I saw on your page that you went to Utah, and when the new deans were being considered last year, I remeber seeing that he was from there, and I wondered if you knew him. I have not met him, but my father was assoc. dean of CEPS here for many years, so he's run into him a few times,...

Ya, that'd be awesome. I am at school there. I'm assuming you were meeting with some of the faculty here. Who did you visit?

looks a LOT like my press, which I am getting very close to testing. I will post when I do it and we'll see if any big problem arrise.

Why was kam in NH this month? Amherst is like, 45 minutes from my house, very bizare to see a picture of you guys so close to me.

origanally I had more bolts in the design, and all the holes are drilled for them, but I loose 3 inches of ski length if I do it, making the max length of the skis around a 178 or so. I guess that's fine and it will make the total bolts around 16 on each side ( a couple of the bolts can't go through...

how serious of a problem do you forsee this being? are we talking the press blowing apart?

I was thinking about adding some clamps of some sort on it while testing it, do you think that would be a good solution to the problem as well?

Relating to Kam's last post, having this website come up last year during my freshmen year at college and being in ME and being able to relate what I was learning to this was one of hte best things to happen to me. Before I found this site it had always been a dream to make my own skis, and I even s...

that's what I as planning on doing, just wanted to see if there was anything else to take into considerations.

ya, just try another solid modeling software package.

is there any set formula as to what the dimensions should be for a ski? I have seen some around before, but I don't know if they are legit or not. I'm gonna be designing my first skis soon though!

I just set it to print to 'banner' paper. It didn't work at first, but after some playing around with it I got it to work perfectly.