In collaboration with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC), the team has been tasked with developing a new way to stop underwater projectiles. The scope of this project is to design and fabricate a mechanism that has the capability of stopping an underwater cylindrical projectile without causing serious damage to the object. It can be assumed that the projectile will be neutrally buoyant, have a parabolic nose, and be made of steel alloy. The capture mechanism will be in a fixed position and must be adaptable to different environments, scalable to different projectile sizes and energy efficient. The team is also responsible for building a projectile device, (which will be traveling 10 ft/s), replicating the one being used at NUWC‘s test site. The final capture design does not need to be suitable for long-term operational testing in the field.

Our team collaborated with Management & Engineering for Manufacturing 10 on this project.