01_Xiaoyue Zou
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At the beginning of the construction, we decided to use the combination of 13 bricks as the column
of first floor, and filled the wall with same structure of bricks. However the stability of the
structure is questioned as the first floor is somehow the basis of the whole tower.
therefore on of the member come out with a better idea:
each level of the
column has four
bricks and the
direction of
connecting level is
opposite
The new basis composed by 9
column with 13 levels of the new
structure and (another one is setted
at the position of the animal). This
level contain the most number brick
and widest wall to curry the weight
of the whole tower.
The second level start with a special beam:
The four bricks up on the beam can help strength
the connecting part if the bricks and decentralize
the force to the columns, so that the rubber that
fasten the bricks won’t break and the beam can
curry more force.
Second floor has much less brick than the first, we used the normal wall structure to more
sure it’s stable.
After the second floor reached around 40cm’s
height, tutor suggested us to limit the number of
bricks in each level to reach as tall as we can in the
shortest time. Hence the shape of each level change
from square to circle and become smaller
And finally become to two bricks per level.
The competition with group 1 started as the
time was almost finished. Though we
realized the unstable of this structure ther
was no time for us to restructure it and it
collapsed in the last minutes.
Finall tower:
During the weight capacity test group 1’s tower, I thought it
will collapse at red circle, however it collapsed at purple
circle.
Posible
collapsed
point
During the deconstruction of the tower. We started
from the based columns, then up to the second level:
Then the third level:
Finally, two side of the tower was removes and the
force only carried on the other two. Hence when I
try to move one brick at the circled area, the tower
started to shake and finally fell down.