Our engineering design wasnt extactly a design, it was more of an advertisment for already existing products that can help reduce the damage and injury of an earthquake. Earthquakes affect the whole world and cause millions of dollars in damage and hundreds of peoples lives and homes.We started our project by creating a model house on a shakeboard and placing home items in it. We then used products that securely fasten furniture to the wall and floor and placed a putty substance ,you can buy for less them five dollars, on all of the items. We then simulated a 7.0 earthquake to see if there was any major damage and to our surprise there was none.
Reflection:
My group worked perfectly together. We all took the time to talk in depth about what we should do. Our first thought was earthquakes and we quickly came up with ideas. We already had a shakebaord and we were in the process of builing a house that was to scale to a normal 30x30 foot house. We then had to find out how big the quake was going to be to simulate a real size earthquake. With the help of Mr.Williams we figured out that it took two inches of movement on both sides of the shake board to simulate a 7.0 earhquake. With the help of the internet we found out that in a recent earhquake in California there was a twenty foot land shift to a 7.9 quake, we then converted that to two inches of shaking on the board.
Reflection:
My group worked perfectly together. We all took the time to talk in depth about what we should do. Our first thought was earthquakes and we quickly came up with ideas. We already had a shakebaord and we were in the process of builing a house that was to scale to a normal 30x30 foot house. We then had to find out how big the quake was going to be to simulate a real size earthquake. With the help of Mr.Williams we figured out that it took two inches of movement on both sides of the shake board to simulate a 7.0 earhquake. With the help of the internet we found out that in a recent earhquake in California there was a twenty foot land shift to a 7.9 quake, we then converted that to two inches of shaking on the board.