Our Term 4 engineering challenge for science was to design and construct a spaghetti tower that had to meet the following requirements:
60cm height
5 x 5 square had to be able to fit through the top
The base had a maximum of 30cm x 30cm
Resist surface waves, P waves and S waves.
We had to remain within a price range of $60, one strand of spaghetti being $1 and one gram of blue tack being $1
Using these materials our task was to create a design of a tower that could resist an earthquake, then using our design we constructed our design and put it to the test.
The purpose of this project was to replicate real-life earthquakes and the difficulties of designing a building that can resist S waves, P waves and surface waves. We had to find different ways to stabilize our structures and we came across unexpected challenges that are also found in the real world such as finding a way to stabilize the structure when it moved.
Some changes and modifications have been made to the construction that is different to the original design.