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Constructing Logbook! We thought there would be less risk of premature collapse of the structure if we left a gap for ‘dinosaur access’ rather than remove bricks at the end of construction.
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Dead loads - “static loads acting vertically downward on a structure.”! The greater the load and weight meant a greater compression
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Catherine Waters
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We struggled with the need to make a form of shelter for the dinosaur. We couldn't see a stable way of forming a roof extending form the walks so we thought the bet options would be to make a structure independent of the walls that didn't jeopardise the hight of the structure.
We used a stretcher bond for the whole structure but with small gaps between the MDF bricks to be time and material efficient
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Before continuing to build up the height, we changes the form to have rounded corners, thinking that this would eliminate weak points which we considered to be the corners of the rectangular form
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Part of the structure became out of line, threatening to collapse outward as we got higher.