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Getting bounced: Investigating the loads and durability of a Pogo Stick

A light-hearted coronavirus lockdown project with a useful outcome

Newsletter EnginSoft Year 17 n°2
By Tim Hunter, Wolf Star Technologies, LLC | Will Mars, Endurica
Getting bounced: Investigating the loads and durability of a Pogo Stick
Getting bounced: Investigating the loads and durability of a Pogo Stick

Abstract

This light-hearted technical article discusses a project undertaken between WolfStar Technologies’ Tim Hunter and Endurica’s Will Mars during the Coronavirus lockdown – to create a digital twin of a Pogo Stick in order to calculate its fatigue damage in the hands of a novice user. The Pogo Stick was turned into a load transducer using finite element analysis (FEA) so that the strain gauge locations could be identified, and the strain data collected, to create the operating deflection shapes of the toy.

These were then fed into Endurica to subsequently calculate the fatigue damage on the rubber – with all load and damage calculations processed in real time.

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