W02 xiaoyue zou
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WEEK 2 JOURNAL In this week’s studio we are require to build a tower as tall as we can. Considering what we learned before, a draft of the tower structure was agreed by all members. The idea of the mean body of the tower is from the famous Eiffel tower and Chin’s (2008) description about the weight of structure decreasing though the increasing of the height therefore the swing of the structure can be controlled and the foundation can carry more loads. At the same time the structure of trusses is considered to strengthen the bottom part of the tower. The relating information will be exposed in further discussion. At the first step we built the part that circle in red in Figure 1: Because of the limitation of connecting material (only glue) the constructing process was moving slowly. One of the group member reminded us the pin connection from Chin’s book and recognized the tinny pins we discover in the class room can help connecting the timbers: Though the pin connection can be set up much quicker, it allows moving at the connecting point. To solve this problem, we strengthened them with glues and built special structure at the bearing point: Use the least timbers to reach the highest
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WEEK 2 JOURNAL
In this week’s studio we are require to build a tower
as tall as we can. Considering what we learned
before, a draft of the tower structure was agreed by
all members.
The idea of the mean body of the tower is from the
famous Eiffel tower and Chin’s (2008) description
about the weight of structure decreasing though
the increasing of the height therefore the swing of
the structure can be controlled and the foundation
can carry more loads. At the same time the
structure of trusses is considered to strengthen the
bottom part of the tower. The relating information
will be exposed in further discussion.
At the first step we built the part that circle in red in
Figure 1:
Because of the limitation of connecting material
(only glue) the constructing process was moving
slowly. One of the group member reminded us the
pin connection from Chin’s book and recognized the
tinny pins we discover in the class room can help
connecting the timbers:
Though the pin connection can be set up much
quicker, it allows moving at the connecting point. To
solve this problem, we strengthened them with
glues and built special structure at the bearing point:
Use the least
timbers to reach
the highest
WEEK 2 JOURNAL
During the consturction, one of the timber was
broken by acidents, we used following struction to
repair:
We also used to different triangle structures to
avoiding collapse:
This structure is built for avoiding bucking of
columns (Chin, 2008):
The other structure is:
The green timbers can avoiding shifting between
columns and braces, also transmit loads between
columns.
The last page shows the final tower, because of
wasting to much timber on the triangle structures,
we were run out of timber and it was not the tallest
one. However all the group members do believe it
is the strongest one, if we had time to text it.
Column
Brace
WEEK 2 JOURNAL
Reference list:
Francis D.K. Chin (2008), Building constructing
illustrated, Fourth Edition
Unknown(2007), La Tour Eiffel, Travelling, viewed
15 August 2013
http://www.gootrip.com/gootrip/_20module/mdd
/html/2007-07-02/mdd_1490.shtml
