| Devon Thomson
ShakeLess Structures: Designing an Earthquake Resistant Building
| Division: | Health Sciences | | Category: | Junior | | Region: | Annapolis Valley | | City: | Wolfville, NS | | School: | Wolfville School | | Abstract: | Models of earthquake resistant buildings constructed of unattached wooden blocks were stabilized using several structural modifications: overlapping blocks, building height, buttresses, base isolators (marbles in a box), roofs and cross braces. Experiments were conducted on a homemade earthquake machine. Buildings of overlapped blocks on a base isolator were most stable. |
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