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Will My Building Withstand Eq 2013

If your structure can withstand an earthquake, the design strategy of anchoring will be the most important factor in keeping it safe and minimizing damage. Architects often go beyond these safety codes to ensure public safety. For example, the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco is stronger than required by the city's building code.

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Will My Building Withstand Eq 2013

If your structure can withstand an earthquake, the design strategy of anchoring will be the most important factor in keeping it safe and minimizing damage. Architects often go beyond these safety codes to ensure public safety. For example, the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco is stronger than required by the city's building code.

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Assignment #23 Name: Max Burrous Period: 4 Date: 2/12/13

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Will My Building Withstand an Earthquake? Architect Frank Lloyd Wright was an innovator in designing buildings that could withstand earthquakes. For example, Wright designed the Imperial Hotel in Tokyo, which withstood that citys severe 1923 earthquake with only minor damage. Many modern cities located in earthquake prone areas have enacted building codes designed to reduce damage to structures, thereby reducing the incidents of injury or death. Architects often go beyond these safety codes to ensure public safety. For example, the Transamerica Pyramid in San Francisco is stronger than required by the citys building code. It also has features built into its base that are designed to dramatically reduce how much the building will sway during an earthquake.

Problem: What design strategies keep structures safe in an earthquake? Hypothesis: If my structure of 21 centimeters tall can withstand an earthquake, then the design strategy of anchoring will be the most important factor in keeping it safe and minimizing damage. Materials: 40 Toothpicks 5 mini marshmallows or 25 grams of clay Sheet of paper (to build structure on and put names and group number on) Procedure: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Make your hypothesis if you havent already done so. On the back or bottom of this sheet, sketch a plan how you and your partner are going to build your structure. How are you going to use the materials? Draw an example of your structure. Have the teacher check and sign off on your drawing. Before you start building get a group number 11. Once the teacher has given you your group number, you may start building your model. After you have finished making your model, fill out the data table for your group below. Place your model on the counter with a piece of paper underneath it and be sure your names and group number are on it. Collect data from all the other groups so that your data table is filled out. Class Data Table for Period # 4 Height of Width of # of Anchored Low model base cross to the paper center of (centimeters) (centimeters) braces (yes or no) gravity ( Results: Group # Rigid (clay) or Flexible (marshmallow) (choose one) Time lasted on the shake table (seconds)

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15

16.5 20.0 4.5 9.5 8.0 8.1 19.9 16.1 16.5 24.0 16.4 cm 13.0 15.5 9.0 11.5

12.0 7.9 14.5 4.0 9.0 13.3 12.0 7.0 7.5 6.0 4.5 cm 7.5 7.0 6.0 15.0

0 8 14 1 0 0 20 4 4 3 0 0 20 1 1

No no yes no yes no no No no no no no no no no

yes yes no yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes yes

rigid rigid flexible rigid flexible rigid rigid rigid rigid rigid rigid rigid rigid rigid rigid

1 12 15/15 1 15/15 15/2 2 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 1

Observations: My model lasted 2 seconds on the shake table. After the first second it collapsed into 3 separate pieces and got destroyed. Conclusion: According to the textbook on page 204-205 shear walls, tension ties, base isolators, cross braces dampers and flexible pipes are good design strategies because they can help save the lives of people. In this lab we tested what design strategies keep structures safe in an earthquake. I hypothesized that if my structure of 21 centimeters tall could withstand an earthquake, then the design strategy of anchoring will be the most important factor in keeping it safe and minimizing damage. My model lasted 2 seconds on the shake table. After the first second it collapsed into 3 separate pieces and got destroyed. 100% of the flexible structures lasted 15 seconds. Sixty-seven percent of structures that lasted 15 seconds used anchoring. In conclusion my hypothesis was correct. Anchoring was the most important factor in keeping the structures safe and minimizing damage during an earthquake.

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