About BAJA SAE EVENT- Baja Teach

       
BAJA SAE event is organized by the society of automotive engineers (SAE) for undergraduate students. The objective of BAJA is to stimulate real-world design, projects, and related their challenge…. BAJA SAE competition takes three to four days.

BAJA SAE EVENT held in only six countries all over the world USA, Mexico, South Africa, Brazil, and INDIA.

The event was first originated in the year of 1976 at the The University of Carolina with the name of Mini-BAJA.

BAJA SAE INDIA started in 2007. But the story starts in 2002 when the the first team from INDIA of Delhi college engineers participated in Mini-BAJA 2002.

Baja SAE India competition held in two places first in Indore Pritampur and second at Chandigarh University. Your team got which event depends upon your Baja Virtual scores. Among 350 teams only the top 150 teams go head for BAJA Pritampur and about 60 teams go for Chandigarh University. So it is very important to clear Baja Virtual for participating in the main event.

In Baja Sae India, teams of a maximum of 25 students and a minimum of 5 students from different colleges and universities all over India participated. Every team needs to design and build an off-road vehicle and performed in various dynamic and static events. But…

Baja Sae India is a two-level process and students need to clear the virtual Baja first. After clearing this round teams are willing to start their fabrication process and become eligible to participate in the Main Event.

What is BAJA virtual or it is important to clear?

Virtual Baja is the first phase of Baja Sae India it is also called design round. In this round teams are need to virtually design their off-road vehicle using mechanical fundamentals and software like Solidworks, Catia, Ansys, Hypermesh, Lotus, ADAM, etc.

Note: For clearing virtual Baja is it important your vehicle strictly follows the rulebook guidelines.

In this round you need to prepare Baja virtual design presentation using the template provided by Baja Sae India. In this presentation you need to show your designing and calculation parameters of different departments (powertrain, brakes and tires, steering and suspension, Roll cage, Analysis, and your market report). Always follow the guidelines of the rulebook to avoid disqualification.

Scoring of Baja Sae India main event

The total score of the event is 1000 points.

Dynamic + static events = 1000

Dynamics events: 700 points

1.      Acceleration -                                      50 points

2.      Hill climb or suspension and traction- 50 points

3.      Manoeuvrability-                                  75 points

4.      Rock crawl-                                        125 points

5.      Endurance -                                        400 points

Static events: 300 points

1.      Design report -                                   150 points

2.      Cost report-                                        100 points

3.      Sales presentation-                            50 points

Acceleration event:

The acceleration event is designed to measure the time taken by the vehicle to complete straight 100ft (30.48m) from standing start position.

Suspension and traction:

In this event, the track includes various curves, hill climb, and 7ft direct fall. This event is designed to measure gradability, stabling, and durability of the vehicle.

Maneuverability:

In this event track consist only sharp turns and figure of eight. This event is designed to check the handling ability of the vehicle.

Rock crawl:

In this event, the track is made by the pouring of big stones in a 70-80ft long mattress. To clear this event or scoring more points you need to focus on tire pressure and ground clearance of the vehicle.

Note: Rock crawl event is 2^nd tough dynamic event after suspension and traction.

Endurance:

The endurance is closed-loop measuring 1.5 to 5 km. the endurance track consists of different surfaces.eg. (Dirt, grass, sand, mud ground, stone and hill climb) the endurance track consists of various obstacles to the test the durability, traction, and speed of the vehicle. Continuously 4 hours Baja vehicle run on the track, therefore good immunity and stamina driver is a must.

Note: Your team is free to take two attempts in all dynamic events including the brake test.

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