Your main goal is to tell Destiny and me a story. We don't know anything about this design you have investigated but we are engineers and understand technical details. Imagine you have never seen anything about this product before and walk us through that design explaining what you have learned about in terms of reverse engineering. By the end we should know what the product is, what need it meets, how it functions, and what conclusions you've drawn that may be useful for future designs of bike racks.
Make sure to follow the formatting rules (Links to an external site.).
Images and sketches need annotations that help connect the text you write to the part in the diagram. For example, "the top part is in bending" in your text should be accompanied by a figure that has the "top part" labeled. Also add, "as seen in Figure X".
Many are missing a overall diagram that shows the product, shows how it holds a bicycle, and how it integrates with the external. You jump right in to detailed drawings and the reader has no idea what they are looking at. Make sure to include a general description.
The purpose of the abstract is to summarize the contents of the paper. I'm looking for the "informative abstract" as seen here (Links to an external site.). This should be no longer than a third of a page and just a couple paragraphs at most.
Almost everyone has a beam model of some aspect of their product. This is great that you are modeling the system, but the goal should be in the context of "reverse engineering". For example, you may want to figure out why the product designer chose certain dimensions and materials given their specified max loads. Modeling the internal loads at critical points and computing the stress may give you an idea of the actual factor of safety, which could be informative to your future design work. Make sure that you have some conclusion from your calculations. If you just show a bending diagram with no numbers, it has little value to the reverse engineering process.
Many of your models are poor choices for modeling what you are interested in. It isn't always clear what you are modeling and why you chose that particular model. For example, many of your models model fixed end points of a beam as pin joints, which is very poor for a welded structure. I don't want a model just for the sake of modeling. These models aren't even necessarily required to answer many of the questions I've proposed.
Be sure to review the prompt (Links to an external site.) and make sure that your report is addressing what I'm asking for. Go through your report and make sure you feel like you've addressed each point. Also see the list of questions (Links to an external site.) that you can answer.
The sketches are pretty good, but small fonts on scanned images are often hard to read.
Don't waste any space! I saw a lot of white space in the 3 pages that could have information in it.
Some stuff that could be incorporated: