Isis De Muinck    ACS Amman

Essay

 

 Buildings are built to resist earthquakes. We have found that the easiest way to make an earthquake risistant building is by making crosses and a heavy bottom, that is also how constructors make them. We will most likely make ajustments as we go. The building is baced on multiple ideas from the internet, we looked at images and think we have a pretty good idea on how to make it stand. 

 

We will probably test ours as we go and make improvements as needed. Ours needs to be stable and straight. We have a nice tip of the builting idea for the top. This will help the building not tip over. Our building is going (or we want it to be) strong enough and hiegh enough to reach our limit. On 'How stuff Works" we have found some interesting techneques on how to make our building even more stable. 

 

   Our earthquake resistant building will support the inside and have stages to it. We will try to make it stable. On "Earthquake proof building" there are methods on how Earthquakes happen and what building architecture should look like. There is also a website called "Advanced Earthquake Resistant Design Techniques" where they talk about techniques in a whole. As this is a building made of spagetti strings. Hopfully our building will reach the expectations needed. 

 

   The building stable on the bottom mostly and less stable towards the top. This is a little inconvinient although we have worked around the difficulties and created a more stable top part. Our building has been tested multiple times and has shown that the tower is stable enough, all we have to do now is test it "for real". 

 

Were I got some good Ideas

 

http://mceer.buffalo.edu/infoservice/reference_services/adveqdesign.asp

 

http://www.reidsteel.com/information/earthquake_resistant_building.htm

 

http://science.howstuffworks.com/engineering/structural/earthquake-resistant-buildings.htm

 

 

 

Analysis

 

What went right with your building?

The bottom (or base) is very stable. It lookded like it could last for a long time. It did as it was meant to and was stabble. 

 

What went wrong with your building?

The top is not completly straight. It tipped over from time to time, and we also had spagetti strings breaking. Fixing the spagetti strings was easy but fixing the tipping over part, now that was nearly impostible. You would have to take the tower apart. 

 

What would you do differently?

I think I would change the top completly.

 

How did you group function as a team?

Our group functioned well, we all did a little bit of everything.