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BUILDING STRUCTURE

Project 1: Fettuccine truss bridge

Learning Outcomes:

  • Able to evaluate, explore and improve attributes of construction materials.

  • Explore and apply understanding of load distribution in a truss.

  • Able to evaluate and identify tension and compression members in a truss structure.

  • Explore different arrangement of members in a truss structure.

Project 2: Extension of an RC structure

Learning Outcomes
 

  • Produce a complete documentation on structural system of a case study.

  • Explore and understand the concept of structural analysis.

  • Identification of structural components.

  • Recognize, Execute and implement basic procedures of building structure design.

  • Produce a structural proposal.


The task was to create an extension of an existing residential structure. First we picked a site then analyzed its structure via calculations of load and beam. The other part of the project is to propose an extension for the building along with new calculations for the extension and 3D model of the house and the extension for the project.

In groups of six, we were required to build a scaled fettuccine bridge based on existing precedents of truss bridges. The models were to be tested with a fixed load of 50 Newtons / 5kg of weights where it was hanged from the middle of the bridge. The next part of the assignment was to calculate the truss load distribution and reaction forces

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