Talk:Contrib:BondMatt

I have quite a bit of work to do with this but I will get to it eventually. I am in the middle of a senior year project which is eating up massive amounts of my time. I also don't like any of the data/results I have other than the experimental. I have been considering posting the experimental data but I think it would be better to just have a single table comparing all of the results.

The one item that is really holding me back is the geometry. I tried to use graph paper and a vernier caliper to make my model but I found this difficult with quite the lack of accuracy and precision. Our institution will eventually have a CMM machine and between this machine and local machine shops I will eventually get at least a profile. A profile like this will allow me to create my model entirely within Salome without too much difficulty. The approximation (sketch of cross section) I used in my first analysis was a combination of an ellipse, straight lines, and several arcs produced using Catia. It was also a terrible approximation. I would prefer to do everything with open source packages especially since software like Catia can be expensive to use in commercial applications.