Approaching the SES, ASES and IAD in Formula Student

Meet Rahul Maity, an executive assistant and business analyst with vast formula student experience as a vehicle development lead and document reviewer.

Discover how to complete the SES template by navigating the cover and master sheets, understanding version history, and identifying required material and powertrain details for Formula Student documentation.

Learn how to prepare chassis images with readable dimensions, labeled components, and color-coded legends for monocoque or tubular structures, ensuring compliance and reviewer readability.

Understand the first vehicle rules: require a newly manufactured chassis, with options to reuse existing chassis when moving from cv to ev, and document changes with CAD images.

Explore the material data section, focusing on baseline steel properties and when to apply lower values from tests or vendor data, including alloyed versus unalloyed steel and steel two.

Detail how to select main and front hoop materials, enter OD and wall thickness, and attach bend radius images while following rule T3.10.5 and the guidance note for bracing.

Explore the front bulkhead support structure, detailing upper, diagonal, and lower members, material rules, and how to count tubes under P 3.13 and P 3.5.

Analyze the front bulkhead construction by selecting the construction type, entering bulkhead width and height, and calculating the effective number of tubes using half-chassis considerations for monocoque or laminate structure.

Describe ia and ap plate impact attenuator height per rule 3.16.2, ensuring a 100 mm high, 200 mm wide, 200 mm forward volume stays below 350 mm from the ground.

Verify side impact structure per rule 3.14.1, ensuring three tubes with an upper surface member and separate diagonal and lower columns, and position upper axis 240–320 mm from inner surface.

Explore shoulder harness bar design, including material, tubing type, center-to-center harness distance to the nearest frame node, and required hand calculations for bending stress and deflection.

Analyze the accumulator protection system and upper, diagonal, and lower member triangulation, guided by rule books and material requirements for impact structures.

Assess harness attachments for shoulder, lap belt, and anti-sub systems. Emphasize required tests, hand calculations, physical proof, and rule book alignment for both laminar and tubular structures.

Attach anti-intrusion plates to the front bulkhead as part of primary structure, distribute grade 8.8 bolts at 200 mm perimeter, and use a 2 mm backing plate for monocoque structures.

Analyze bolted primary structure attachments with axial pullout considerations, focusing on blind inserts in monocoque designs per t 3.15.7, including test specimens and friction curves for joined primary structures.

Explore TSAC attachments by calculating chassis mounts in x, y, and z, proving EV 5.5.8 compliance with 40 g accelerations, and documenting hand calculations, CAD images, and mass in cages.

Learn how to test monocoque leg joints, apply welded tube inserts for holes over four per 3.7.6, and document steering rack collars on bulkhead support tubes with CAD and calculations.

Learn to fill the additional info tab for formula student submissions, including receipts, data sheets, and physical tests to validate alloy steel and tube dimensions under 3.3.3.