As part of my first week as the new Technician-in-Residence at DoES Liverpool I've found time to photograph the acrylic test samples. From the earlier posts, this second set of samples [...]

The first set of lattice hinge tests I generated were a little fragile, with the maximum stress in the torsional links set to be 60MPa (the yield stress of the acrylic) [...]

The last set of hinge tests that I showed used a cut out a rectangle of material to form the links. By re-arranging a formula that calculates the required inter-link clearance, [...]