The University of Bath’s Department of Mechanical Engineering took delivery of its Compcut 500 advanced composite saw back in May 2020, right in the middle of the first COVID-19 Lockdown period.
Despite this challenging debut and continuing Covid disruptions to Higher Education provision, the Mechanical Engineering Technical team has managed to bring the unit into effective service, supporting a wide range of academic work and practical projects.
The Compcut 500 had been very carefully selected as the ideal machine to create high quality, multiple and consistently accurate carbon fibre coupons, to not only support the department’s composite related research activity but also to be available for resourcing a wide range of student’s projects including ‘high profile’ design, development and build competitive student team initiatives.
The University is currently actively involved in a range of such multi-discipline student-led competitive initiatives including, Bath Zero Emissions Motorcycles which involves extensive testing of fairings and other vital parts that contribute to the construction of the ‘all electric’ superbikes. The Bath Zero Emissions Motorcycles project was set up in 2014, with the specific aim to enter (with success) in the Moto E and Isle of Man TT Zero Class competitions. Similarly, the multi-discipline student Team Bath Drones initiative was established in 2015 to meet the IMechE challenge for the design, build and testing of unmanned aerial systems that requires the highly accurate testing of outer shell and rib support structures that make up these very varied and complex vehicle designs.
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