Thursday, September 30, 2010
Architecture Week 2010
Here is the link to the Architecture Week website http://www.architectureweek.co.nz/ . You can find out all the information of what goes on within the whole week!!
Wednesday, September 29, 2010
Sonoco - Formatube
Lesley's dad kindly went and collected the tubes (our central core) yesterday morning from Sonoco in Henderson.
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| Sonoco factory, where we got our tubes |
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| Worker getting our tubes |
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| This is how we intend to cut our tube |
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| Jack & Lesley taping the paper to the tube enabling us to have a straight line to half the tube |
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| Inside of the tube |
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| Tubes delivered to workshop |
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| Jack shows you a bit about scale... |
clamped the tube down onto a table, so we can draw a line then cut in half with a jigsaw
EDL Fasteners
Yesterday we received our bolts that we're joining our layers with from EDL Fasteners.
Dimensions: M10 x 160
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| We laid them all out... hahaha |
Friday, September 24, 2010
Holmes Consulting - Continued...
As we announced last time, we went to meet with the Engineers from Holmes Consulting on Friday. We discussed with Andy & Lisa from Holmes Consulting about our structure and we went through most of the possibilies and structural problems we have/yet to encounter, and came up with solutions to these problems.
Monday, September 20, 2010
***Holmes Consultanting Engineering Award***
We are delighted to announce that we are one of the 3 groups awarded the Holmes Engineering Consulting Award.
We will be consulting with professional engineers about general construction techniques and ideas.
After the consultation, we will be presenting to our year group our structural solutions on Monday 27 September. Each group is given 5 minutes to present, so that those who are working with the same or similar engineering issues can also benefit from the discussions we had with the engineers.
YAY!!
We will be consulting with professional engineers about general construction techniques and ideas.
After the consultation, we will be presenting to our year group our structural solutions on Monday 27 September. Each group is given 5 minutes to present, so that those who are working with the same or similar engineering issues can also benefit from the discussions we had with the engineers.
YAY!!
Construction Pieces - Reinforcing
We've finally figured out how we're going to assemble our layers!! We also worked out all the angles for the inside of the box...
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Bearings!!
Today we went to our sponsor Auckland Bearings to get some bearings to see whether they fit into our rods.
Unfortunately due to the little edges on the reinforced steel, which makes an extra 1-2mm bigger than the bearings themselves, we're now resulting to possibly find some rods with a smooth surface.
However, here are some photos of the things we're going to use:
Unfortunately due to the little edges on the reinforced steel, which makes an extra 1-2mm bigger than the bearings themselves, we're now resulting to possibly find some rods with a smooth surface.
However, here are some photos of the things we're going to use:
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| Rings we might need to use to secure our bearings in its place |
Sunday, September 19, 2010
Thursday, September 16, 2010
Design for joining our Tubes
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| Connection method we worked out of how to connect two tubes together |
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| Strength testing |
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| View from inside showing connections |
Working out Dimensions for 1:1 Components
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| Jack sitting to show scale |
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| Space for pushes at the bottom of the tower |
Pamphlet Design to Present to Sponsors
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| Front |
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| Inside Spread - Our design aims and progress so far |
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| Back Page - Documentation on Modeling |
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