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You are required to DESIGN and CONSTRUCT a model of a building
to a scale of roughly 1:25.
The model should stand up to the artificial earthquakes
generated on the Shaking-Table in
the EERC laboratory.
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The Model
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Your model must:
- be made only from MDF board, paper, glue and string. (
Show Me )
- have at least 4 floors and fit on 25 cm square base board. (
Show Me )
- be able to carry 7.5 kilograms or more. (Show
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The Artificial Earthquakes
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We will test models on the shaking-table for different sized
earthquakes. We will start with a very small earthquake.
Then we will gradually increase the size of the earthquakes
to the maximum the shaking-table can produce.
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For every model, we will make a note of the size of the
earthquake that caused it's
failure and use that to calculate an efficiency
ratio.
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The models with the highest efficiency ratio will be the
winners.
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See a video of models failing on the shaking table. Download
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