Portfolio by Mario Balcells

M Y P O R F O L I Oby Mario Balcells

Mario Balcells

mariobalcells

@MarioBalcells

Mario Balcells

Mario Balcells

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Elisava Escola Superior de DissenyPaolo Sustersic

International Mobility CoordinatorE-mail: [email protected]

Telèfon: +34 933 174 715Fax: +34 933 178 353

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CONTENT1. About me 42. Photography 63. Drawing 84. History of color 105. Tertial by Ikea 126. Seat belt 147. Shandler 168. Beefruit Wall 189. Re-designing 2010. Bamboo Lamp 2211. Pallets 2412. Tensile test 26

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ABOUT ME

My name is Mario Balcells Rosal, I am 20 years old and I come from Barcelona, Spain. In the following part I will be telling you some things you should know to meet me a little bit.

I was born the 26th of June of 1995 in the city of Barcelona. Here is where I have been living since with my family. My father Mario, 52 now, is a real state manager and event planner, also owns several familiy bussines. My mother Isabel, also 52 owns a promotional gift com-pany with a partner and friend. My two sisters have 22 and 16 years old, the older one Laura has finished this year her Bussiness and Mana-gement degree at IQS School of Management and the younger one Alicia is starting Senior Year at Jesús-Maria, the school the three of us went to.

Regarding my scholar curriculum, when I star-ted Senior Year I decided to specialize in the technology area in my school. At that time I knew I liked things related with design, archi-tecture, drawing, creating spaces, products

and also technology, even though I was never keen on mathematics. When I finished school, I looked for a degree that could fit the things I’d like. I wanted to mix design with enginee-ring for a perfect combination of my skills. That is the reason why I decided to do Engi-neering of Industrial Design at Elisava School of Engineering and Design.

And finally, I found myself in the middle of my degree and I have been given the oppor-tinity to do the Erasmus and study abroad for several months in a different country. I think this is an incredible opportunuty to improve english and gain experience from a foreign country and it’s own culture.

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Personal life

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I consider myself a very extrovert person, alwalys wanting to explore, travel and try new things.

I like to be happy as much as I can, laugh and make jokes with friends and family. As you can see in the pictures, we like to travel together as a family, and if its adventuros, much better!

Sport is always around me, I like to disconnect and enjoy doing different activities. Since I was a child I was always into raquet sports as tennis, paddle or squash. I also like to do mountain bike and running with my little dog, a two year old Cavalier King Charles Spainel.

As I said, family is very important to me. I adore meeting with my cousines and relatives in special ocasions.

Travelling is a must, and visiting museums and cultural places is always on the list.

I’m creative, animal devoter, artistic, nature lover and music is one of my passions. I look the details in everthing and I’m a perfectionist. I like to look good, cause a good impression and be surrounded by good people.

SOME OF MY LIFE

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PHOTOGRAPHY

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One of my hobbies and passions is photogra-phy. This year 2015 I had such an amazeing and bussy time traveling around the world, most of the time during this summer.

Some of the places I have been to are Be-rín, Les Illes Balears Mallorca and Menorca, Riviera Maya (México) and La Cerdanya. A combination of exotic climate in the coast and beaches and cold climate in the mountains is an interesting contrast shown in pictures.

That is the reason why I would like to show two of this places I have been to. The first chosen is México, Riviera Maya.

Even though August is not the perfect time to travel to equatorian locations because of it’s extreme hot temperatures, Riviera Maya offers breathtaking experiences and off the beaten trak places to visit.

In the pictures right away we can see various shots of fauna and flora I took of this place

and it’s ruins as part of their culture. Méxi-co offers a variety of activities related with nature.

Snorkeling with infinite types of fish, turtles, mantas and views of the barrier reef, whale shark diving, climbing or excursioning around the jungle in the Yucatan peninsule are some of the activities I did.

The big picture shows the Ek’ Balam Ruins, and at the top there is fauna from Xcaret wild parc and whale shark diving at Playa del Carmen.

The next page shows the identity of the coun-try with street pictures of the turistic Playa del Carmen area at the left side of the page.

Hobbies

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The second city chosen is Berlin. The opposite place regarding climate and culture compared with México. It is also a city with contrasts itself and a huge identity full of art and history.

This cold metropoli located at the north-east of Europe is a city with a huge artistic spirit consequense of it’s own history.

Berlín offers quantity of street art and infinite artworks, from the berlin wall that crosses the big city to paintings, musums and pubs and bars for young-ters.

I treid to show the essence of this city in the pictures exposed belonging to May. I saw and felt it as a hipster city, with lots of details in the streets.

Peolple I met there said Berlin was not consider part of Germany, they saw it as a city that had infinite mixure of people from different countries, cultu-res and thoughts, and that was totally what I thought as I did not expect it to be like this in a good way.

BERLIN

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DRAWING

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One of the things we first learnt at Elisava was drawing, because it is the most simple way to express our ideas into reality. This means, we had to work on our skills to express our drawings into understanable propor-tions, with perspective, having sha-dows and lights to locate its position and to make a good effort to make the drawing as real as we could.

These are the first projects I have wor-ked on. Starting with simple shapes (squares, circles, triangles) to volumes (cubes, cilinders, piriamds) that chan-ged the figure from two dimensions into three dimensions.

One of these works consisted of drawing the three letters of our first name and last name into capital letters, so we would experience mixed shapes, from lines to curves. As we can see in this page, there are various

types of letters that conform different volumes.

First, it was needed to put into pers-pective the volumes and areas of each one of the letters to create a space and a dimension.

Finally we made the shadows of the letters and coloured them, depending if light or dark was needed to appear more realistic.

The shadows were made by a cons-truction of lines that depending on its direction they will go one way or another.

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A variety of projects was made. As we can see, we evolved to straight three dimension volumes at the top left of the page, to more complex objetcs.

We can see a tin can next to an extinctor in the middle, and a vinoculars. The body of these objects is the cilinder. Rounded shapes were applied to construct them.

Other similar projects are cubes with rounded corners in the bottom right, that evolve into a blue box and a sandwitch maker.

The toaster and hair drier are other objects that also have its difficulties when drawing them. The corners of the toaster have a com-plex way to draw the glitters of the corners and the hair drier has a cilinder that ends up narrowing its natural shape.

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EVOLUTION OF COLOR

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Color is a way to express artistic creations, and in our history, color has developed, as everything, according to the time and decade. This project is about the history of color, and I decided to study this evolution with a very specific object that has a close relation with feelings, in addition to aesthetics.

As you can imagine, this object is the lipstick. It started to commercialise in 1884 in París, and at the beginning of the 20th century it started to norma-lise the use of it and it was an object to express rebelion for the woman.

It was needed an extense historical study to comprehend the evolution of the lipstick color and why this color was used. In this page we show pic-tures from the start of the lipstik to nowadys that express the decade it was and the social events of that time.

In the next page, the study is shown in a schemized, iconized and resumed timeline.

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Research area. The evolution of color through the lipstick

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1910American feminist revolutionSymbol of revolu-tion and indepen-denceMovement led by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Charlotte Perkins Gilman

1920Acceptance of lipstickSymbol of revolu-tionElizabeth Arden and Estee Lauder revolutionize the cosmetics industryCameras and film the dark tones popularized by the “black and white” of the time

1910 1920 1930 1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000

1930Max Factor created the first lipstick marks1923 first lipstick thread by Manson1930 years of economic recession and depression, more salesFirst shades of lipstick to young Elizabeth Ardeen, 1930

1940Film industry boosts popularityVivid and provo-cative to cheer the soldiers for war colorsThey began to associate intense provocation and lipstick are prosti-tutesFirst long-lasting lipstick by Hazel Bishop, 1940 1950

In the 50’s lipstick she became popular between the com-pany and sold like hotcakesIcons like Audrey Hepburn or Mari-lyn Monroe highli-ghted by the color of their lips2/3 of the girls using lipstick in 50

1960Soft glows, pastelMax Facto takes Strawberry Merin-gueRock groups like The Shirelles and Ronettes Ther po-pularize light colors like pearly whiteLipstick as a symbol of femininity

1970Symbol of rebellion and nonconformityGroups of glam rock and heavy me-tal popularized dark colors like black and shiny and bright colorsRain of shine and sparkleFeminists expres-sed their rebellion against the lipstick

1980Raw and dark styleGarish colors and variedColors that express movement, cele-bration, lifeMadonna or Cyndi Lauper examples of rebellious young artistsExpansion lipstick models

1990Decade of success in the cosmeticsIt was the decade of brown and beigeBrown fashion came marked out-linedComes the famous “Glitter” with gold glitter and silver

2000Natural tones cu-rrently carry.Also pink and pur-ple but which con-ceals well with the color of our skinArtists like Lady Gaga again put new styles on the marketCompetition in the cosmetics sector

CRIMSON REDRGB: (229, 26, 76)

PURPLERGB: (125, 33, 129)

REDRGB: (230, 0, 38)

RED PURPLERGB: (230, 0, 38)

PINKRGB: (247, 191, 190)

CORALRGB: (229, 29, 46)

MAGENTARGB: (245, 0, 135)

FUCSIARGB: (255, 0, 90)

GARNETRGB: (170, 28, 71)

SIENARGB: (197, 138, 62)

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TERTIAL BY IKEA

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Producte: TERTIAL

Dibuixat: Balcells, Mario

Data d'entrega: 10/07/2015

Professor: Joan Piqué

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Tertial is a model of office lamp designed by Ikea and is one of the most successful lamps because of its particular design and its usability.

It’s a lamp that has an industrial appearance as it is composed by lots of pieces, including small pieces of hardware and bigger pieces that con-form the estructure.

This project consisted of building the lamp in Solid Works, a computer pro-gram that transform 2D figures into 3D. To accomplish this, it was neces-sary of dissasemble this lamp into all of its small pieces.

Having all of them free I was able to measure them with a caliper and intruduce the measures into the com-puter program.

Once constructed the 3D pieces could I assemble and put the pieces together to build the lamp and make it mobile.

In the following pages we can see ori-ginal maps in 2D and 3D of some of the pieces and the lamp finished and an exploded map to see the whole set.

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SEAT BELT

There are lots of mecanisms, but one above the rest that was a mistery for me was the seat belt. How does it work? Well, in this project I had to study this mecanism to explain how it works.

What I did first, was to find a seat belt that I could open and disassemble into all of its parts to figure out its mistery.

To understand the mecanism I did an explosion of it to separate the parts. As you can see in the explosion of this page, it is composed by 6 pieces that are the most important ones.

Those are the top closure, that keeps the system locked, followed by a seat belt metal box that keeps the prin-cipal pieces together. Inside the box there is the belt buckle and the wheel blocker and lock centrifugal. Outside this box there is a shphere and a small

box indicator arm. It belongs to other system different from the one that works with the elements from the inside of the box.

Both are used for different purposes. In the following page I explain how both work and for what.

The calculation below tell us the strength that the seat bels suffers measured with a dynamometer. Then, we calculated the forces involved in the seat belt system.

Explosion

Fd = strength of the piece dynamometerFm = spring force Fc = kinetic force

Calculation

Lock centrifugal

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Seat belt box Sphere and box indicator arm from pendulum lock system

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To understand how it functions, we have to know that there are two systems. One is called pendulum lock, the one we have at the top left, conformed by the elements from the outside of the box, the sphere and box indicator arm.

The other system, is called cenfrigugal lock, and all of the pieces from the inside of the box make this second system work.

The system’s security mechanism works when there is an abrupt slow-down. At this time the two mechanis-ms are involved.

The first system called Lock pendu-lum consists of a sphere (2) and cash (3) that keeps the inside. The top of the box can be moved with vertical movement, which in its end there is a

tab that is fixed sprocket (1) fixes this whole mechanism.

The second mechanism, called cen-trifugal system locks activated once strap belt pull sharply. At this time the gear shaft (1) at the same time you stuck to the centrifugal lock (4) and within this there oscillator arm (3), which toured centrifugal force causes the oscillators arm open wheel and gear blocking blocker (2), which begins to turn jointly with toothed shaft and blocking the whole system through the piece blocker (5).

Once the mechanism is blocked and the tape is no longer stretched, sepa-rated outdoor spring (6) makes the blocker back into position inicual, so the system is unlocked and returns to its initial operation.pendulum lock

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How does it work?

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SHANDLER

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Shandler is an automatic door handler. It is a project for Materials Selection, a subject that studies materials to make an optimal selection of the best materials that meet the best charac-teristics for the specific use which will be exposed.

The name of the product it’s a combi-nation of two words, the sound word “Sh” for silence, and the word handler. This product is a door handler that that opens the door by pressing a bot-ton, so it does not make any sound.

As you can see in the images, we had to follow some steps to build Shandler.We already had a material assigned that was a memory shape material. It was a memory shape spring, that with the heat it recovers its original posi-tion and returns to the first position when cooling down.

We first went through a collecting phase to buy and choose the mate-rials. We chose wood conglomerate to build the door and its suport.

After searching the elecricity power energy with a tester, we started cu-tting the parts, shaping the door and the lock part if it to put the botton and the bolt for the keys.

We itched the structure of the door, sticked the base to the structure and polished for a perfect finish. And fina-llty we tested the result that you can see in a video on the following link:https://vimeo.com/139615675

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Project. Building an automatic door handler using intelligent materials

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It works with a shape memory spring that is in the lock of the door. This spring is connected via a cable which gives electric current. By biting the button or turning the key open the electric circuit thus letting the electric ener-gy heats the shape memory spring that makes shrink and unbolt and therefore the door. To stop snacking stops spending power button, cooled and then close.

In the pictures below both pages you can see how it works in 4 steps.

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BEEFRUIT WALL

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BeeFruit Wall is a project made for the Biomimicry Global Design Cha-llenge of 2015. Consists of a natural system to keep fruit in a wall to make it visual and conserve the natural properties of it.

It is inspired in the hexagonal bee ho-les, a shape that optimizes the space and makes this product stackable. Also combines properties taken form the spiders fabric and wants to re-preoduce the natural secuence of fruit growing in a tree going through all its phases of its life cycle.

It’s made with oak wood, that has very strong properties as flexural strength, young modulus or hardness and also has a low price and its easy to work with compared with the rest of woods. Also combines stainless steel for the cap screws, a metal that has one of the lowest and least pollution proce-

ces when obtaining and transforming it into a piece, and has magnific quali-ties related with price.

Finally, is has nylon thin rope to hold the fruit that is kept on the inside. Nylon leaves the fruit breathe and lets the air pass, and also has a minimum touch with the rest of the structre and fruits. It was necessary to study the properties of the materials for an optimal selection. We used CES Selector to do this, a program that has a big data base with the information of lots of materials.

INSPIRATION

Project. A fruit container for walls

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As we can see in this page this product has various aspects that are positive to the user. Not only can it be a fruit keeper, but it can also be used as part of furniture or a pice of design for an open space, a kitchen, dining room, etc..

Other aspect, is that keeping the fruit in this objetc makes you create a co-nextion with fruit because you can see it, and it opens your apetite or makes you want to eat fruit rather than something else kept on the fridge that you can’t see it. Morover, its a good way for children to learn how to eat healthy, and know when fruit is ripe and ready to eat, so you don’t waste food.

The rounded shapes in the corner make this object fluid and inspired in rounded shapes of fruit. This shape lets the fruit slide through it and fall

one after another without suffering any important impact.

A variety of fruit is allowed to be kept in this wall object. It also has the essence of nature as combines this three materials made of and creates a perfect combination.

To see more, you can go to the fo-llowing link and watch a video of Beefruit Wall:https://vimeo.com/130247052

DETAILS

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RE-DESIGNING

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NEW MATERIALS

Armband is the redesign of conven-tional sport bracalet. The aim of this project was to solve the problems that this kind of products have when redesigning and useing all kind of stra-tegies to create a whole new better product.

Some of the problemos I found in sport bracelets as a user are: impreg-nation of swet and smell, belcro as a locking system as it opens, the cable position, the material made of as it is not flexible enough and when there is an expansion of the muscle it opens up and falls, also the belcro is not small enough for thin arms and does not close, ad finally its design, talking about aesthetics.

So, to solve all of this issues I did a market sutdy of sport bracelets. The first thing was to find the perfect ma-terial. As we know, most of the brace-

lets in the market are made of polyes-ter. I found other material that could tanspire so that the smell would not be a problem, that was elastic enough for all kind of arms (thick and thin arms) and also to lock without belcro and was a waterproof material. This is a material with elastic elastomer cha-racter having a good elastic recovery. It is a special kind of silicone “Polysilk” textile and has good finishes.

To solve the locking system what I did was to incorporate a locking system through snaps. As we can see at the top the older design and at the bot-tom the new design in black.

585 mm long

PolySilk - CTEMacroemulsion elastomeric silicone for fini-shing all types of fibers.Good elasticity, recovery, easy sewing and not alter the strength of the dyes are its main features.

POLYVINYL RESIN - 8709Aqueous dispersion self-crosslinking vinyl acetate copolymer used as an adhesive for flocking, bent and pigmented pastes.

PolySilk - NULBased softener emulsion micro amidofuncional auto reactive. This silicone reacts with radical groups of the cellulosic fiber thereby obtai-ning a more smooth and high elasticity besides continuous washing fastness. It is very suitable application in pigment printing, either applying it directly to the printing paste or a finishing eliminating the hardness and rigidity of the embossed pattern.

CONTEXT

The redesign of a sports bracelet

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ArmbandThe new design includes 3 color bra-celets; red, blue and yellow. There are 3 different ranges, depending on the personality and tastes of each user. 3 colors express different feelings while 3 are strong, high tone and persona-lity.

The final form differs from the first a lot. The latter is more fluid and inspi-res continuity, movement and fluency that makes a more sensual object incorporating curves. The design is intended, both the choice of colors as such, impact the user to enter a sport.

The shape reminds of an arrow and rounded lines give continuity and fluidity to the new product. Also, vivid colours are needed to inspire and mo-tivate the user because it’s an sportive item.

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BAMBOO LAMP

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Bamboo lamp is a working lamp desig-ned with natural materials, the main one with zero cost.

I decided to use bamboo, because is a material that combines good proper-ties and it’s vrey easy to work with, as breaking stress and elasicity.

I have bamboos in my house, so when I mowed the garden I realized I had too many bamboos left. Then I decided to peel them to leave them smooth. After this proces I used them to build the lamp.

I have never seen a lamp made with bamboo, so I tought it woulde be a very good idea. I wanted to coninue useing recycled materials, so I came up with the idea of useing a metal pot from Ikea I had in my room. I used another metal pot to put it into the base so it would be like an offie item

where you can keep your pens and working objects.

The base was made with conglome-rated wood also recycled. Acctually, I found a table on the street which had a good potential for the base of my lamp. I cutted the base in the lab of the university (Elisava) and then I sprayed in grey this base to look the same has the metal pots.

In next pictures we can see Bamboo lamp in a work space, with it’s pot to keep pens, etc.

By useing this materials, Bamboo lamp looks like a natural lamp, fresh and ecological.

Project. Design and construction of a lamp

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CONTEXT

In the pictures above we can see some parts of the building process, how the bamboo is worked, drilling, cutting wood, sanding, etc.

There is also a comparison with other standard lamp from Ikea. We can see Bam-boo lamp is bigger, and taller, and it has a big angle which can be moved in a wide range.

In the pictures at the left it is represented the context where it is used. It can be an office, bedroom, etc. It is also represented the moment when the user wants to grab a marker from the pot, a useful complement and finally how the user regulates it to have more light.

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PALETS

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Palets is an indivdual project that consisted of reuseing materials and transforming them into something useful.

It was not my first time useing pa-llets, so I thought this time would be perfect to do something different with them.

Lots of furniture magazines use pallets very frequently transforming them into pieces of furniture for our terra-ce, our garden, our pool, etc. So that, I decided to do something easy but in a bigger scale.

As I saw many pallets stacked on top of each other, I came up with the idea of making a counter bar. So I put them as they where before, however I had to make some improvements.

We will see in the next page I had to

cut them in half, so the middle coun-ter structure was thiner, and the same with both sides.

To have a goold looking and highlight I bought LED lights that are long and very thin and placed them on the inside of each row of pallets.

When it was finished the look and the result was incredible as at night the counter bar looked like no other. It was a piece of furniture expressing nature, recyclability and freshness.

PALLETS

Project. Design and construction of a counter bar with pallets

COUNTER BAR

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LED WIRING HIGHLIGHTS

INTERIOR DETAILS

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TENSILE TEST

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The tensile test of a material consists of submitting a standardized test tube to an increasing axial tensile until fai-lure of the specimen occurs This test measures the resistance of a material to a static or slowly applied force.

We had to make our hypothsis to cal-culate the forces given, in represen-tation 2.10. Those forces (F) are the ones applied with the fingers by the user and consequently the resistance force (Fr) appears.

Firstly, for parts 1, 2 and 4 (rep. 2.11) it is assumed a section of 10mm and 1mm edge. It has been assumed to be constant section, and has taken the largest value for the rest.

Secondly, for the calculation of char-ges, it was decided the closed position and is assumed 5N external load. With an angle of 15 degrees from the

vertical.

Thirdly, we have simplified the end of part 4 (D) (rep. 2.12 on the fo-llowing page) also it has deformed few thousandths top (point B) in order to coincide with the grid.

And finally, yield stress stainless steel used is 300 Mpa.

Considering these aspects, we will calculate the forces in one piece as an example.

To observe the tensile test and frac-ture, we made a laser cut full-scale representation video of the clippers with methacrylate. Thus we can see in a video the most vulnerable parts at the time of the fracture. Go to the following link:https://vimeo.com/140528584

Fr

F

F

Lenght

Piece 1 - 2

Piece 4

Piece 3

2.10

2.11

Study. Forces of an object

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Free-body diagramPiece 1 Example

Cutting diagram

AE

F

Fr

Ay

Ex

EyFʼ

Bending moment diagram

Millimeter approach

Stress calculationes

We can appreciate the free body diagram of the piece numbre 1. The forces that affect this piece are a consequence of the pieces 2 and 3 that contact this one.

We already know that force Ay is worth 3,841N and F is 5N. So the rest of the oppo-sing forces will add the equivalent of their opposites to balance, F’ with 3,317N and Ey with 1,474N.

On the left we have a sequence of photos of the breaking moment of methacrylate cli-ppers. When the piece begins to turn white, it means that these are the parts who suffer ten-sile stress. Just before the break it gets more intense color. The point that has this color, is the place where it braks, as we see in the last picture.

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Mario Balcells

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Mario Balcells

Mario Balcells

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