Hello, welcome to the Mechanical Engineering lab tour.
So today we're going to be showing you around our labs where you'll be doing your physical
project work and all of your lab work, let's go.
This is the undergraduate teaching lab
you'll be performing your group activities and your experimental labs down here
once every two weeks.
So in first year you'll do the materials testing lab on this device.
It involves pulling apart a piece of steel and seeing how it performs under stress
and then you'll look at the stress and strain results on this computer.
You'd also be doing a lot of group activities like the bridge building lab where you make
a bridge out of balsa wood and then test it to destruction. A great way to work on your
teamwork skills and costing for engineering etc. Mechanics is a big part of engineering and in
second year you'll look at these beams and how they perform under pressure and stress you'll also
perform the same tests computationally and compare the experimental and computational results.
So alongside where you do your first year labs, we have the machine workshop.
The technicians will help you get familiar with using machines such
as the milling machine and lathe, and to test your skills you'll build a model car.
You'll then get to use these machines later on for your group business design and final year project
if you choose to do a manufacturing project. This is the second half of the workshop where
you can learn less conventional skills such as hot wire cutting and filing
you can also use this area in your second year design and make project.
Over here we have an example of the ramp used to race the cars where you will make and file
the bodies as well as build the chassis next door, and then test how fast they go.
We're going to have a look in the build rooms now.
So you can get involved with competition teams at any time during your time at University of Bath
but especially in third year during the group business design project in fourth
year as well for your final year project. Hi Joe, can you tell us a bit about TBR?
Yeah so we're one of two formula student teams based at the University of Bath.
We're the combustion team meaning we we run on an internal combustion engine
we compete every year in the UK at Silverstone and abroad across europe.
Students can absolutely get involved from day one helping us out with odd jobs and then as part of
their degree in the third and the final year. This was the previous year's car that's just
finished competing in Silverstone in July and the current team 22 is finishing up the design
ahead of building our own car to compete next summer, we're hoping to launch a
successful tour into europe as well. This build room further down the
corridor houses Green Bath Racing, so this is our Eco-marathon team.
The Shell Eco-marathon goes on every year and it's a really good opportunity to get involved
with if you're looking to get some hands on practical engineering skills and business skills.
Securing our sponsors every year is always a positive.
This room is also shared with the Bath Drones Team.
Now everything you see here is made from scratch most of the body is made on-site in the autoclave.
Another fantastic opportunity to get involved with the University of Bath.
So we're coming up to the autoclave now where they make all of the carbon fibre parts for the Team
Bath Racing and the Bath Drone Team. Through here is the autoclave,
you'll notice it's quite loud at the moment because it is actually running
and then through into the next room is the wind tunnel.
In second year, you'll do an aerofoil lab using this
wind tunnel as part of your fluid dynamics module
So this is one of our larger wind tunnels that the University has.
It's used for industries who want to come in to test large scale components such as
Team GB Paralympics testing their wheelchair or any motorcycles or cars things like that.
This wind tunnel is capable of speeds of up to 25 kilometres an hour.
For components that are smaller and need to be tested at higher wind speeds, there's this
wind tunnel that can go up to 120 kilometres per hour and is used to test aerospace components.
Thanks for watching, we hope you enjoyed our tour. If you need any more information please visit
the website and we hope to see you here with us soon, bye.