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Formula Electric Belgium🍃 🇧🇪is a team of engineering students 👨‍💻👩‍🔧 that designs and builds an electric racecar🏎️ every year.

We go on short walks with our departments in the b

We go on short walks with our departments in the beautiful surroundings of Leuven. A breath of fresh air, a healthy walk and good chat with our team mates allows us to clear our minds and keep our productivity high!🏎🔋🇧🇪
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The clock is ticking⏱ … Just a few more days t

The clock is ticking⏱ … Just a few more days to go until we finalize the design of this year’s car.🏎🔋🇧🇪
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This week, we would like to thank Würth Elektroni

This week, we would like to thank Würth Elektronik for their support. Their components can be found on every PCB in our car. On the new ECU, they supply more than 180 parts! On the picture, you can see the power supply of the ECU and a handful of their products. Do you want to see more? You'll have to wait for our digital roll-out in a few months.🏎🔋🇧🇪
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#formulastudent #electronics

Driving into the weekend A few weeks ago we went k

Driving into the weekend
A few weeks ago we went karting @brusselskart with the team to sharpen our driving skills and to find out who our most talented drivers are. The competition was tense but extremely fun. 🏎🔋🇧🇪
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#formulastudent #karting #racing

♪♪ The wheels on the bus - euhm car - go roun

♪♪ The wheels on the bus - euhm car - go round and round ♪♪ With the wheels assembled, we are ready to rock and roll. 🏎🔋🇧🇪
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#wheel #tired

Thanks to @altairengineering, we can build a car t

Thanks to @altairengineering, we can build a car that is as light as possible. The topology optimization of Altair Inspire allows us to design and build parts with the highest stiffness for the least
amount of mass. These designs can either be 3D-printed directly or adapted for conventional milling.

For the composite side of the car, we use Altair HyperWorks to calculate the pattern, the direction and the amount of carbon fiber layers in certain parts. This ensures that every part is structurally sound. 🏎🔋🇧🇪
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Last but not least, we would like to introduce our

Last but not least, we would like to introduce our management team.
The management team consists of our Team Manager, Chief Electronics, Chief Mechanics, Head of Marketing, Head of Driverless, respectively. These five gentlemen make sure the team sticks to its busy schedule and keep an oversight of all activities in their departments.
Together with the whole team, we hope to achieve some good results this year! 🏎🔋🇧🇪
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Keep it cool The design of both the battery casing

Keep it cool
The design of both the battery casing and the cooling of the cells will be thoroughly optimized this year. The 288 battery cells, which together form 600V, are placed in modules in the battery casing. These modules are equipped with air ducts that cool the cells to assure optimal operation during the races next summer. Using Siemens programs such as STAR CCM+ and NX, we design the battery casing and modules to optimize the airflow and cooling.🏎🔋🇧🇪
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This week, we would like to thank @altiumdesign f

This week, we would like to thank @altiumdesign for making their software available for the electronics team members. Thanks to their software, the development of more than 20 PCBs goes as fast as possible!🏎🔋🇧🇪
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Bloedserieusweek 16 to 19 of November Let’s prov

Bloedserieusweek 16 to 19 of November
Let’s prove that students are the real heroes! We’re counting on you!
If you are a student in Leuven, make an appointment on the site linked below and save lives!
If you are not in Leuven, no problem, Bloedserieus is organised in major student cities all over Flanders.
Message from Bloedserieus:

“Dear students

From 16th to 19th of November, you can become a hero and save lives. How? Come and donate blood in the Bloedserieusweek! All our donors will be pampered with an amazing goodiebag!
Convinced?
Make sure to check the conditions for a donation via https://www.rodekruis.be/en/what-can-you-do/give-blood/am-i-able-to-give-blood/check-if-you-are-able-to-donate/
and register via
www.bloedserieus.be/en/cities/leuven.
For more information, go to Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BloedserieusLeuven

Places to be?
You can donate in different time slots and locations:
Mon & Tue: 10:30am - 8:30pm Ladeuzeplein
Wed & Thur: 11am - 8pm Gymnasium (University Sports Centre)
Mon - Thu: 8:30am - 8pm Donor Center (Gasthuisberg)
Want to join the team of bloedserieus and help organising the bloedserieusweek?
Be sure to send us a message via bloedserieus@leuven.be
or our a DM to our Facebookpage!
Be there or be square!
The team of Bloedserieus”

Today we went to Sam&M for the QMT of our gears.

Today we went to Sam&M for the QMT of our gears.
Due to this treatment our gears get a compressive stress surface layer which ensures a longer lifetime.
This was the last production step for our gears which means we are ready for assembly!🏎🔋🇧🇪
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#formulastudent #gearbox

Without the help of @siemens , designing a race ca

Without the help of @siemens , designing a race car would be very difficult. We use Siemens NX to design our parts and to check if all the parts will fit together. We use the simulation environment to validate the strength of our parts and much more features.
An additional advantage of using Siemens NX is the possibility of a direct link between NX and STAR CCM+. We use STAR CCM+ to design our aerodynamic package and to validate our cooling channels. 🏎🔋🇧🇪
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This week we would like to present to you our thes

This week we would like to present to you our thesis students. These students help us with research in each department. Thanks to them we can evaluate which parts, algorithms, materials,... we will use in our future cars. Research and development is a very important aspect of motorsport, especially in formula student competitions. 🏎🔋🇧🇪
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#formulastudent #research #teamwork

Last week we used Nova to test our inerters on the

Last week we used Nova to test our inerters on the 4-post at @monroesuspensionemea . An Inerter is used to reduce the normal load fluctuation at higher frequencies and thus reduce wheel hop (2nd video). This is done by adding an inertia in the suspension setup which reduces the vertical accelerations of the unsprung mass while having a minimal effect on the sprung mass. 🏎🔋🇧🇪
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#motorsport #testing #formulastudent

This week we want to thank @materialisenv. Materia

This week we want to thank @materialisenv. Materialise helped us with the 3D printing of our Ti6Al4V brake calipers. These brake calipers have been topology optimized. Due to this optimization we can generate a higher brake pressure than the traditionally used Formula Student calipers while also decreasing the total weight. 🏎🔋🇧🇪
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#formulastudent #brakecheck #racecar

Frighteningly fast!
Happy halloween!
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Electronics, the black magic department. This cont

Electronics, the black magic department. This contains all the parts that you can't see, but are crucial for a great car. All sensors, motors, and safety systems will be designed and maintained by Wouter B, Wouter H, and Nicolas. The focus of this year is a new ECU and a new battery pack.
On the driverless side, we will focus on validation of our algorithms, and do further research on data segmentation of Lidar data and dynamic controls using Artificial intelligence. They will not work alone, 4 thesis students will help with this challenge. 🏎🔋🇧🇪
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On Wednesday, you're allowed to take a brake 😉

On Wednesday, you're allowed to take a brake 😉
Brake lights are up and running. 🏎🔋🇧🇪
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This week we would like to thank @ousterlidar for

This week we would like to thank @ousterlidar for providing us with an OS1-64 LIDAR sensor. This LIDAR sensor uses light to determine the distance from the sensor to an object. Our driverless car will be able to perceive its environment in high detail due to the 64 layers of points and the small wavelength of the light emitted (850nm). With all these points we will be able to determine the location of the boundaries of our track with high accuracy.
For more information on their sensors check https://ouster.com/
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The vehicle dynamics department consists of four m

The vehicle dynamics department consists of four motivated electro-mechanical engineers (Wouter, Mathijs, Remko and John respectively). We do everything that has something to do with the movement of the vehicle on track. This includes the design and implementation of the hardware such as steering, suspension, pedal box,... As well as the software and simulations regarding the optimization of the suspension setup, torque vectoring, traction control, semi active suspension,...

This year we focus on optimizing the suspension setup of our latest car as well as some further research into the latest additions to our suspension such as the inerter, a new torque vectoring algorithm and the active dampers.🏎🔋🇧🇪
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