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The Serpent MotherThe Serpent Mother is a large scale steel sculpture built by San Francisco art group The Flaming Lotus Girls. For this project, I designed a 5 degree of freedom hydraulic system to actuate the head and neck, from first principles through detail design through fabrication and installation. I also performed the detail design of the structural spine, including all CAD and knowledge transfer to the fabrication team, with structural engineering support from civil engineers at Endresware and Degenkolb.
Read about the project in IEEE Spectrum
CAD Rendering of Spine Structure
Welded Two-Way Joint in Hydraulic System
Bending Diagram for Tube 13, One of 20 8' Spine Segments
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