woensdag 18 februari 2009

Constraints and research method

Contest constraints
First of all there is a resume of the contest constraints.




The bridge has to span 100cm horizontal and 42cm vertical. To make this span there is a construction space provided as shown in the figure. A vertical point load is applied in the middle of the bridge.

Material and physical constraints
A maximum of 600 gram spaghetti may be used.
Spaghetti strings have a maximum length of 20cm and a maximum of 3 strings may be glued parallel providing a string with a maximum length of also 20cm.
During the development of the process the constraints could change for several reasons, for example to make it more or less fragmented.



Research method


I’m going to start with a massive block and I would like to use the vectors of the stresses in this block for modelling the first pre-frame which is a new basis for the DIANA analysis. I check in Diana where problems or inefficiencies occur and I use that to remodel the frame into a more efficient one.

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