Vocabulary
These alliterative words refer to both how a structure looks and what its purpose is.
What is form and function?
It's the shape we use to represent forces.
What is an arrow?
2 words, both start with L, refers to the weight of the objects the structure supports.
What is a live load?
Has a keystone piece, and is also found in your foot?
Arch
This 'm' word means how strong a force is.
What is magnitude?
This word is used to describe the triangular shape you see on many bridges.
It is one of the three ways you an increase the stability of a structure.
What is adding reinforcements, widening the base, or lowering the centre of gravity?
7 letters, starts with T, the "pulling" force on a structure.
What is tension?
It is the unit that weight is measured in.
What is Newtons?
This imaginary point is the middle of all of a structure's mass. When it's low to the ground, the structure is more stable.
What is centre of gravity?
They are the 4 basic forms that structures take.
What are solid, frame, shell, and combination?
A force that acts to pull or stretch objects apart
What is tension
6 letters, starts with W, refers to the amount of Newtons that gravity must exert to keep an object on the ground.
What is weight?
Of the 4 causes of structural failure, it is the one that would happen earliest in the construction process.
What is bad design?
This 'C' word is a force that is similar to a crushing motion.
What is compression?
An object has a weight of 500N. What would its mass in kg?
What is 50kg
This internal force occurs when parts of an object are pushed or pulled in opposite directions.
What is shear?
What are extraordinary loads?
They are the 7 ways we give structures strength discussed in class. Name as many as you can
What are beams, trusses, arches, buttress, pillar, cables and domes?
A force that twists an object.
What is torsion or torque
It is the type of structural failure demonstrated by the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
What is foundation failure?
An igloo would fall under this type of design?
What is a dome
The 3 types of failure with the first letters being B, B, F
What is bending, buckling and fracturing
This method of strengthening a structure is defined as running metal cable through it (usually in cement).
What is rebar?