The Space Carousel - Preliminary Version

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My name is Alexia Coronel, I am a mechanical engineering student at the Faculty of Exact Sciences, Engineering and Surveying (FCEIA) of the National University of Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina (UNR): FCEIA-UNR (https://web.fceia.unr.edu.ar/es/)This is a preliminary version of a practical work for the subject M-25 Synthesis of Mechanisms and Machines, directed by Professor Marcelo Valderrey | GrabCAD (Marcelo Valderrey), and corresponds to the edition of this subject taken during the first quarter of 2024.It is a work based on the tutorial Conceptual Design Challenge: Artificial Gravity for Human Colonies on the Moon and Mars (Conceptual Design Challenge: Artificial Gravity for Human Colonies on the Moon and Mars).As I have already mentioned, this is just a preliminary version, in which I aim to present the first sketches that came to my mind after analysing the task. In this case, I present the proposal "The Space Carousel", which uses the principle of centrifugal force to generate artificial gravity.For further details, please read the documents attached (english and spanish versions are available).DISCLAIMER: I've analysed my two preliminary proposals after a few days of posting them and I have realised that I've made a mistake. The idea of this concept is to generate a centrifugal force, hence the force acting over the astronauts will be pointing to the exterior, rather than to the center (as it has been accidentally drawed in these sketches).