In the Fall of 2017, my team and I participated in the Freshman Engineering Design Day. My team competed in the Fabric Bucket Challenge where we were tasked with making a bucket that could hold a gallon of water for one minute.
During the trial phase, we took a porous type of fabric made of plastic and layered it polyurethane to create a water repellent barrier. Once it was finished drying, we took the polyurethane-covered plastic fabric to the Makerspace at D.H. Hill Jr. Library to use a sewing machine. I took charge of sewing the material into a bucket and payed close attention to the corners of our prototype. This is where water was most likely to leak out of the bucket. We then tested the hydrophobicity of our fabric bucket prototype and improved the design after seeing minor leaks.
The documents below detail our background research and engineering design process.
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