Project 2 - Design Build The Build Our structure mainly made using wooden sticks and glue. The Inspiration We were originally seeking to create a pyramid structure, however, it was scrapped and converted into a modular tower that can be used to display the importance of load distribution and orientation. The Design Having come up with the shape of a modular tower, we thought of a cake and decided to come up with modules that look like cake layers that would allow the steel ball loads to act as a cherry on top. The Structure Our structural model was primarily created to support the steel spheres' 2-point loads. The structure's primary mechanisms are compression and tension. The vertical wooden sticks (columns) receive compression stresses and transfer them to the horizontal wooden sticks beneath them ( the beams). As a result, the beams are put into tension. Finally, the lowermost columns are in charge of transferring all loads to the ground surface (including the structural load). The blue lines represent the members in tension and the red lines represent members in compression. Material Usage Total length of sticks received = 9753.6 mm (609.6 mm x 16 sticks ) Total length of sticks used ≅ 7140 mm Total materials used for structure ≅ 12 sticks + glue
Group 1 : Inderpratap Singh Chadha - 20980616 Jing Yu Lu - 20953170 Sree Sai Silesh Ravikumar - 20947019