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"Earthquake Resistant" Building

50.6k UnguidedCylinder  4.2 years ago

Disclaimer:

I'm not an engineer so actual engineers or people with knowledge about this stuff will probably cringe

This is a group project of ours in school, where we are tasked to design an earthquake resistant building. I took it upon myself to design only the dampers but ended up making the entire thing. Its not that innovative since most, if not all of it are existing designs which I just simplified. I don't think this will survive an earthquake but hey it's just a concept.

Building itself:

Exploded View to see the interior(messy I know):

Damper:

The damper actually works, by works it dampers horizontal movement, since I tested a simpler version on my own shaking simulator(left):

In the end this was a fun(but also frustrating) break from my usual builds. I have something special, I think, that I'm working on, hint: its not a ground vehicle. I hope you guys will like that future project.

-UC

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    37.7k V

    Dampers already exist in the form of very large roller bearings

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    33.5k tsampoy

    @UnguidedCylinder Oh ok

    +1 4.2 years ago
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    @UnguidedCylinder That's the point of structural strength. Even the springs started straining. But using burnt clay with steel running through them definitely helped. Solid blocks gave out at around 5 when cracks started showing. 7, it's gone.

    +1 4.2 years ago
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    @TastyTanks I did consider having the ball, but I thought the building is wide enough to not topple over. I also tested the building with SP's wind settings and the dampers worked against it too however the shock absorbers did break on stronger winds. If the building were to be higher, then I might add the ball

    4.2 years ago
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    @tsampoy I'm always happy to use SP in a school project whenever I can, and its also allows me to build stuff I haven't tried before

    4.2 years ago
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    @dTitanplanesb that sounds like a really cool project, and it standing up to 9.0 is really impressive

    4.2 years ago
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    33.5k tsampoy

    It’s cool seeing people use SimplePlanes for school

    +1 4.2 years ago
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    33.5k tsampoy

    Wow, that’s awesome

    +1 4.2 years ago
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    @UnguidedCylinder We did that for my science fair project except only difficulty was making 1 cm thick walls out of burnt clay with steel rods running through them to simulate reinforced concrete. It stood up like until we got to the 9.0 magnitude equivalent.

    +1 4.2 years ago
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    If only we had earthquakes in sp lol

    +3 4.2 years ago
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    @AWESOMENESS360 Yeah! The teacher did say to just provide a sketch or illustration, but I saw this as a perfect excuse to practice with pistons and shock absorbers

    4.2 years ago
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    @Aeromotive this is the first cool project we got, so I decided to make the most out of it

    4.2 years ago
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    @dTitanplanesb Yep, that's why when testing I used loose plates instead of the actual building. Not a full representation but I think its good enough. Maybe one day I can recreate a model of the base and see if it really works

    4.2 years ago
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    yes, big overrated
    @banbantheman

    4.2 years ago
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    Using SimplePlanes for a school project is awesome!

    +1 4.2 years ago
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    6,361 Aeromotive

    Wow you guys actually get cool projects

    +1 4.2 years ago
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    The design for the spring base is accurate. This is SimplePlanes so the building's structural strength doesn't matter. Unless you are making a mini model.

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    @WarHawk95 among us is poop

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    34.9k WarHawk95

    Am I the only one who saw Red killing Black ?!?
    Everybody vote red, he's the impostor

    +3 4.2 years ago
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    @YoDudeChase Thanks! And yeah from my research it's really uncommon, I decided to do this for complicated reasons

    4.2 years ago
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    4,038 YoDudeChase

    Nice, thats actually a more uncommon type of damper, more common ones are diagonal inside the walls of the building(But that would be near impossible to make), but this is awesome that someone made something like this, basically Upvotes

    +3 4.2 years ago