Design of a device to slow the motion and vertical descent of a water rocket inspired by tropical seeds from Costa Rica
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2022-09-18
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de Lemos Medina, Leonora
Campos Fonseca, Susan
Soto Garro, Morelia
Dittel Meza, Angely
Salazar López, Francisco
Mora Castro, Rebeca
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The project design is framed in the project: “C1461 Mobile Laboratory of Action and Thought in Biomimetic Arts”
in which an interdisciplinary group of researchers and students from the Universidad de Costa Rica collaborated in
multiple iterations to develop an innovative way to solve design challenges in aerospace engineering and, embed in
rocketry, functions that emulate adaptations observed in nature. After taking Costa Rican South Pacific seeds as
mentors through biomimicry thinking, the development of the main deliverable of the project, which consists of a
design and proof of a parachute system based on the principle of flying seeds was fulfilled. Several experimental
steps were developed: 1. the conceptual design, 2. material selection, 3. design optimization, 4. prototyping, 5.
testing and evaluation in the laboratory, 6. testing and evaluation in the field, 7. final report and design, and 8.
demonstration and divulgation of the results. In this scientific article, we elaborate on all these stages with special
emphasis on the evaluation stage in the laboratory and the field test. It is important to highlight that the project is
rooted in a highly vulnerable area of Costa Rica where the researchers intentionally evoke an inclusive call as an
inspiration
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Biomimicry, flying seeds, Cedrela odorata, BIODIVERSITY, DESIGN, AEROSPACE ENGINEERING