STRESSED OUT STRUCTURES

INDEX

Introduction

Purpose

Hypothesis

Materials

PART ONE

Gateway Structures

PART TWO

3D Geometric Structures: Which is Strongest?

PART THREE

Testing Buildings: Which Design is Strongest?

PART FOUR

Stronger Buildings:

Supports

PART FIVE

Stronger Buildings:  Buttresses and Struts

PART SIX

Earthquake

Simulation: Columns

PROBLEMS WITH

MY EXPERIMENT

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Plasticine 

Pottery clay

Oven

Kiln

Icing sugar

Mortar

Thin-set mortar

Play dough

Wooden template for arch building  

Bamboo skewers

Sand

Small plastic bags

String

Kitchen scale

Wooden dowels for columns

Cereal box

Scissors

Ruler

Protractor

Rolling pin

Small knife