Horizontal Support - Week 1

Exercise 1: Horizontal Support

SATE STICK BRIDGE

Materials:

• Skewers
• Hot glue gun
• Tray

Final Design:

The design we decide on is this 'span bridge'. The reason being for the force of the load to act on the centre and give a balance so that the 'bridge' won't collapse. 

Structure with 4 bag of paper

The outcome is a failure because the design is not long enough for the sides of the design to sit properly on the tables.

SATE STICK AND RUBBER BAND ANCHOR BRIDGE

Materials:

• Skewers
• Elastic Band
• Tray

Final Design:

This design is used because we believe that this type of 'truss bridge' would hold up the load firmly.

Testing Process

Structure with 2 bag of paper

Structure with 2 bag of paper

Structure collapse

 

In reality, the design could not withstand the load because the rubber joints did not join the skewers firmly, causing the bridge to collapse to one side.

PAPER BRIDGE

Materials:

• Paper
• Tray

Final Design:

The paper design we made is wrapped up by more than 20 paper. it is design as shown above because we believe that by adding a few inside rolled paper, it will give the papers a more firm 'bridge'.

Structure with 3 bag of paper

Structure with 4 bag of paper

Due to the structure not collapsing, a force is given in order for it to collapse

At the end, the design succeed the experiment.