Elemental Design #2

This is our second entry Overall weight of new design is 1.66 pounds Overall weight of original design is 4.61 pounds Percentage of weight reduction is 63.39% -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bracket has been designed using Solidworks 2013 Analysis has been carried out using Ansys Workbench 14.5 Bracket has been designed and optimized fully and thoroughly -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Minimum Factor of Safety was found at negligible areas Detailed documentation and report has been attached for additional reference Failure diagnostics and thickness analysis has been made and it was found negligible Boundary conditions and loadings are clearly shown by JPEG images Meshing has been carried out under 0.08 inch of elemental size -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Please use STEP file instead of IGS file......(if .igs file wont import correctly) Please see the files where I reduced the cleif extn..... http://grabcad.com/library/elemental-design-2-1/files/same%20with%20NO%20CLEIF%20EXTN Comments are welcome Thanks in advance Regards Siddarth DM Elemental Design Team