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How Safe is Your Building Structure?
Engineering Science Fair Projects Before you start designing an engineering science fair project you need to understand the concepts that you will be working with. This means that if you are interested in building a bridge you will want to start your project by learning about bridge building theories and techniques. This will provide you with the background that you need to explore a new technique or to develop a new technique for bridge building.
PURPOSE The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effect of height to width ratio on the wind load of a building. HYPOTHESISMy hypothesis was that as the height to width ratio increased, the wind load (drag) would increase.I based my hypothesis on an article from World Book Encyclopedia that was called Wind Surface. It said, That wind can blow so lightly that you cant even feel it or it can blow so hard that it rips trees out of the ground and can crush buildings. EXPERIMENT DESIGNThe constants in this study were: The speed of the wind. The size of the wind tunnel. The time I gave the wind to blow on the structure. The type of material I used to make the structure (plywood). The surface area of the shape facing the wind. The shape facing the wind. The unit I used to measure with. The strength of the wind. The size of the wheels. The material the wheels are made of. The number of wheels on each structure. The size of the axels. The number of axels. The material the axels are made of. The size of the axel holes in the wheels. The place where the wind comes out of. The machine the wind comes out of. The size of holes the axels go in the structure. The type of glue I used to glue the structure together. The placing of the structure in the wind tunnel. The manipulated variable was the height to width ratio of the structures. The responding variable was the force of drag. To measure the responding variable, I used a spring scale. MATERIALS
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