They do not constitute professional consultation and require the examination and evaluation by a certified engineer through any product development process. All materials are composed by students of Messiah University and are not certified by any means. The work presented in this document has been provided solely for educational and edification purposes. The team has also performed a series of finite element analyses on the mast design of our client's rig to evaluate working stresses under static loading and buckling, along with fatigue analysis, to confirm safe operation of the rig and to identify any elements that might require upgrades.įunding for this work provided by The Collaboratory for Strategic Partnerships and Applied Research. The testing rig will allow our team to conduct fatigue testing on a model of the driveline system to analyze the wear patterns on the rubber friction wheel and to estimate its expected service life. The MPWD team’s most recent work includes the design and fabrication of a testing rig to simulate the operation of our client’s full-size rig. Joseph Longenecker to develop a mechanized percussion well drilling rig using a rubber friction wheel drive system that is capable of drilling through these harder layers.Ĭurrently, the MPWD team is working to provide recommendations to improve the useful service life of our client’s new, mechanized rig design. To overcome this problem, the MPWD team has worked closely with Mr. Joseph Longenecker with Open Door Development (ODD), desires to make water wells accessible to all in this region, but has experienced difficulty drilling through hard soil layers. The Mechanized Percussion Well Drilling (MPWD) Collaboratory project is assisting in the development of a mechanized well drilling system for drilling shallow water wells in West Africa.