Team 21: Liam Binnie, Blair Shearer, Timothy Elizondo, Gregor Thompson & Jacob Jacob

Industrial Project Presentation

Improving Stone Delivery in Wheelchair Curling

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Gregor

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Gregor

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Liam

The Problem

Area

Instability in the Wheelchair

Optimal Seating Position

Push Stick Length No Existing

Biomechanical Information

Increasing Power OutputArm Angles

Stone Rotation

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Liam

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Jacob

DiscoverIs this stage the team conducted a lot or research. The areas that

were looked into were:

• Rules of the sport

• Current products

• Client research

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JacobDefineThe team filtered all the research material we had found

and documented. We then moved to the next stage

which were:

• Creating the PDS

• Concept Generation

• Concept Selection

• Focus Group

Final 3 concepts

Focus group• All concepts were shown to the British curling team.

• Favourite concept was the Chair insert.

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JacobDevelop the team looked at the results that were obtained in the define

stage and proceeded to develop the design further.

• Prototyping

• CAD

• FMEA

• FEA

• Biomechanical Analysis

DeliverThis is the stage the Project is in. we have our final design.

• Report

• Folio

• Presentation

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Tim

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Tim

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Blair

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Blair

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The Solution