Mechanical Engineering

Portfolio
Harry Stockley
 Contents
Nightstand ........................................................... 3 Thank you for viewing my
Wheelbarrow........................................................ 4 portfolio. This portfolio has a
selection of miscellaneous
Hinge .................................................................... 5
projects, that I have done in my
Ball Bearing.......................................................... 6 own time, because, I was
interested in learning or further
Spatula ................................................................. 7
developing the skills I thought
Pop Boat ............................................................... 8 were involved.
Wrench ................................................................. 9

Novelty Flask ..................................................... 10 I hope you enjoy browsing

through this small collection of my
Glider Plane (Flow) ............................................. 11
work and it allows you to better
Water Transfer (Flow) ........................................12 assess my skills and interests.
Golf Ball (Flow) ...................................................13

Harry Stockley – 2251050s@student.gla.ac.uk

Nightstand
This nightstand was made using simple tools such as extrude, fillet, mirror and hole
wizard, meanwhile the screws were taken from the Solidworks design library. The
assembly for this project was simple due to the lack of complex shapes, therefore,
most of the mates involved are either coincident or concentric mates. The
dimensions of the stand were measured from an existing product.
Rendered NightStand

Exploded View Dimensions

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Wheelbarrow
I decided to do this project as it allowed for a little creativity as I wasn’t directly copying
sizes and shapes from an existing product, the wide variety of shapes and sizes also
allowed me to show off many different techniques. The main frame was made using
weldments with a custom sized tubing. The handles, wheel and tyre were made using
revolves and extruded cuts and the bed was made extrude and shell. Dimensions for the
overall size of the wheelbarrow were taken from various websites but the sizes creating Rendered Wheelbarrow
the complex geometry were from trial and error during the sketching phase.

Exploded View Dimensions

Harry Stockley – 2251050s@student.gla.ac.uk

Hinge
The plan for this project was to design a hinge that could be
manufactured with simple tools. I decided that the best way to do this
was to make the pin an interference fit. In Solidworks the base of the
hinge of made using extrude, while the past that overlaps the pin was
made using the flex tool. The actual hinge was created by cutting two
pieces of metal into the proper shape and then using a vice to hold it
still whilst hammering it around the pin. I got to experiment with
advanced mates in this project, hinge and angle, hinge to mate the parts
together and angle to define a max and min rotation. Rendered Hinge Manufactured Hinge

Exploded View Dimensions

Harry Stockley – 2251050s@student.gla.ac.uk

Ball Bearing
The ball bearing is a fairly standard component in industry, therefore I wanted to get
a better understanding of how it worked and its components, therefore, I decided to
make one in Solidworks. The rings and ball were made using revolves, the cage was
made using extrude then revolve cutting into shape. During assembly circular
patterns and mirror component was used to duplicate the balls, cage and rivets. The
rivets were obtained through the Solidworks Toolbox.
Rendered Ball Bearing

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Harry Stockley – 2251050s@student.gla.ac.uk

Spatula
Surface modelling is something I did not have much
experience in before this project. The entire base of the
spatula was made using boundary surface and loft
Spatula Render
surface, then using thicken to finish it off. Meanwhile,
the handle was made using revolves and an extruded cut.
After completing the spatula, I wanted to test were the
most stress would occur. To do this I used Solidworks
simulation and gave the front of the handle a fixed
geometry, this was to simulate someone holding it. I then
applied a 20 N force to the tip of the spatula and ran the
simulation. From the below image showing, it can be
identified that all of the stress occurs over the area where
the base of the spatula is curved, if the stresses that
occurred were larger, due to a larger force, it would
probably be better to the spatula converge in the handle Displacement

over a greater area.

Stresses

Harry Stockley – 2251050s@student.gla.ac.uk

Pop Boat
The “pop boat” is a small boat that allows for a small craft
to travel over a body of water using the steam generated
from boiling water using a candle. There are already many
different designs for these kinds of boats online, but I
wanted to go in a different direction and use wood for my
base, as it already floats, therefore, allowing for more
flexibility when it comes to designing for the flow around
the boat. A lot changed from my initial sketch to render to
the actual manufactured boat. Initially I used a lot more
wood on top of the boat to allow more stable structure, but
I decided against this due to wanting to keep the boat Render of Boat Manufactured boat
fairly light. Overall, when testing the final the boat, I
discovered that the candle was pretty far away from the
water container, meaning I lost a lot of heat to the
atmosphere, however, after a few tweaks the boat was fully
functional.

Initial Sketch Isometric of Initial Idea

Harry Stockley – 2251050s@student.gla.ac.uk

Wrench
The goal of the wrench project was to further develop my skills using
Solidworks Simulation. The wrench was created using sketch picture
and then scaled based on measured sizes, the object was the
extruded and cut into shape. The simulation was designed to
simulate the wrench being used to tighten a nut. To do this fixed
geometry was placed at the tip of the wrench head, while a roller
fixture was used on the inside of the head to simulate the wrench
turning. A force was then applied to the back of the wrench to act as
the force that a hand would apply.

Wrench Render

Dimensions Stresses

Harry Stockley – 2251050s@student.gla.ac.uk

Novelty Flask
This flask is very simple, and the majority of the shapes were created using extrudes or revolves.
The thread for which the lid screws in was created using the helix tool and then making use of the
sweep tool. The tabs on the side of the lid to provide grip, was created by making one cylinder with
the extrusion tool, and then using the circular pattern tool to create the rest. The assembly was
incredibly simple as most shapes are cylindrical, therefore I used a concentric mate. The
dimensions and decal were taken from an already existing product.
Solidworks Render

Exploded View Dimensions

Harry Stockley – 2251050s@student.gla.ac.uk

Glider Plane (Flow)
The glider plane is a small children’s toy made from foam,
this project was made to analyse the flow around this object
and the stresses that occur on its surface. Initially this
project had an experiment along with it. The average speed
was to be calculated by measuring the time it takes the craft
to cross over a predetermined distance. However, this
speed ended up being so low that it did not show any
results, therefore, the average speed of a commercial jet
aircraft was used (around 273 m/s). From the stress results
we can see that most stress occurs at the tail and this is the
place likely to cause fault in high speed situations. To
create the glider plane in Solidworks I used sketch picture
to get the initial shape of each part and then extruded. The
propeller made use of circular pattern while the nose used
mirrors for its design.
Dimensions

Stress of Plane Velocity of Airflow

Harry Stockley – 2251050s@student.gla.ac.uk

Water Transfer (Flow)
Free surface flow recently introduced to Solidworks at the time of this
project. I wanted to learn more about it and how it could be used,
therefore, this project closely followed a guide. Free surface allows us to
visual the flow of two fluids, in this project we are mainly looking at the
water as it flows from the bottle into the cup. The 2D cut plot is focused on
the amount of water that has entered the mug, the colour represents how
much water is there as a fraction. From the transparent Isosurface, we get
to see how the water acts when entering the cup at 1.5 seconds, the water is
pretty fast changing at this stage, so we use velocity as our measure as it
allows for a clearing image of how the water entering the cup is acting.
Towards the end of the flow(4s) we see the final image, were there is much
less water leaving the bottle, therefore, less motion is taking place.

2D Cut Plot of Water Flow

Transparent Isosurface at beginning of flow (1.5s) Isosurface at end of flow (4s)

Harry Stockley – 2251050s@student.gla.ac.uk

Golf Ball (Flow)
This project was to test the impact that the dimples
have on golf balls, for this, I made two balls the
same size but gave one of them dimples using
revolved cuts and circular patterns. Both subjects
were then tested under the same conditions in a
virtual wind tunnel, with the travel speed being 137
mph (61.2ms) as this was found to be an average
speed of an optimized golf ball. From the cut plots
below we can compare that the dimples allow for Golf Ball flow trajectory Realistic Render
the wind follow golf balls surface further, allowing
for easier travel compared to the normal ball.

Golf Ball cut plot of flow Normal Ball cut plot of flow

Harry Stockley – 2251050s@student.gla.ac.uk