Welding jig for small-batch bicycle frames
UniversityMy final project: a fixture that holds a frame square while it is welded, so the thirtieth frame comes out lik...
Projects - Elias Brandt
Eight things I designed, built and measured during my degree, two internships and a student team. Each one with what I did on it and what it came to.
Eight projects from four years: coursework, two internships, a season with a student racing team and one built in my own workshop. Each entry says what I was responsible for and how it was checked.
- All
- Internship
- Student team
- University
- Workshop
Fatigue test rig for composite blade sections
InternshipFour months instrumenting and running a rig that shook composite beams until they failed, then working out why...
Front suspension upright, solar car
Student teamA season with Team Meridian: 380 g of machined aluminium that has to hold a wheel on at speed and survive scru...
Assembly fixture and cycle-time study
InternshipSix months on a shop floor. I timed a station 140 times, then built the fixture that took nearly a third off i...
Injection-moulded bracket, design for manufacture
UniversityA coursework part taken all the way to a real tool, which is where you find out what your CAD was hiding.
Pedal box and steering column
Student teamThe second thing I built for Team Meridian, and the first with a driver's foot on it.
Compressed-air test bench for seals
UniversityA small rig built to settle an argument in a lab group about which seal actually held.
Cargo trailer hitch, load tested
WorkshopBuilt in my own workshop for a friend who moves a market stall by bicycle, then tested until I trusted it.