Notice of Intent - Teams planning to build a vehicle to this alternative rule set for entry into a North American competition must notify the Rules Committee of their intent by the date specified in the action deadlines for the competition. Include a short paragraph detailing your team’s finite element capability and showing you can meet all analytical requirements specified in this Appendix. Your “Notice of Intent” should include the email addresses and phones numbers of the team members who can answer any questions the Committee may have about your proposal.
The notice of intent submission should also include a brief report analyzing the sample structures problem posted to the SAE website. Please include a brief text description of your analysis approach, what software you used, the element types, mesh quality and boundary conditions that were used in this analysis. The results provided will be used to assess the team’s capability to perform this type of structural analysis.