Feather Weight Challenge
Feather Weight Challenge. Design, construct, test and evaluate the lightest weight structure that will hold the water container suspended from the tester. Basic Vocabulary. All physical objects have a structure. Part or parts of a building that actually hold it up and give it shape.
Feather Weight Challenge
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Feather Weight Challenge Design, construct, test and evaluate the lightest weight structure that will hold the water container suspended from the tester.
Basic Vocabulary • All physical objects have a structure. • Part or parts of a building that actually hold it up and give it shape. • Your skeleton – structure for your body • What are the structural elements of a building? • Cannot be removed without damaging the strength/shape of a building
Stress • Forces of gravity, wind and weight • Other things that push and pull on a building • If structural parts aren’t strong enough to withstand stress – structure will fail • Dead load: weight of the building • Live load: weight of objects go in and out of the building
Tension • Major kind of stress • Involves pulling and stretching • Tensile cables have to be stretched taut to have structural strength • Material tends to become longer
Compression • Pressing, pushing, and squeezing • Material tends to become shorter