Types of Structures
This can be classified as a push or a pull
What is a force?
A measure of the amount of matter in material.
What is mass?
When you kick a soccer ball, you produce this type of internal stress on the ball.
What is compression.
Laying on a bed of nails is possible because the weight of your body can be spread out on each nail. This demonstrates this method of design we talked about it class.
What is distributing the load.
This includes the weight of the structure itself and other permanent parts of the structure
What is a dead load?
This is the correct term for the force of gravity acting on a structure.
What is weight
This type of internal stress occurs within a rope during a game of tug-of-war
What is tension?
This is anything with a definite size and shape, which serve a definite function.
What is a structure?
This is the standard unit of force.
What are Newtons?
Internal stresses can change the shape of a structure. This change of shape to a structure is called a ...
What is deformation?
This is the strongest shape
What is a triangle :)
These types of structures are strong and hollow and have a thin outer layer that is carefully shaped to provide strength.
What is a shell structure?
In order to properly describe a force acting on a structure, you would need these 2 qualities of the force
What are direction and size (magnitude)?
When bending a material, these two internal stresses are acting on the material
What are compression and tension?
The advantage to this type of structure is that it holds itself together by its own weight.
What is a mass structure?
What is the acceleration due to gravity on Earth? Include units!
What is 9.81 m/s2 (or 10 m/s2)
This internal force occurs when you twist the material by turning the ends in opposite directions.
What is torsion?
This force is always acting in the opposite direction of an applied force.
What is friction?