Engineering for Disasters

Driving Question:

O: Why is it important to engineer buildings to withstand natural disasters, what are the social, environmental, and financial impacts?

O: Why do we care about building disaster-resistant buildings?

DQ: As engineers what must we consider when building structures to be affordable and preserve human life in the case of a natural disaster?

DQ: As engineers why do we care about building with natural disasters in mind?

DQ: As engineers what are the ways we can preserve human life in case of a natural disaster?

DQ: As engineers what can we do to save lives in the event of a natural disaster?

How might nature influence your design, how did we arrive at our current building concepts, how could "non-standard" building materials be used to make structures safer. Anthropology

Engineering - is the application of mathematics and scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge in order to invent, innovate, design, build, maintain, research, and improve structures, machines, tools, systems, components, materials, processes, solutions, and organizations.

Natural Disaster - A natural disaster is a major adverse event resulting from natural processes of the Earth; examples include floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, and other geologic processes. A natural disaster can cause loss of life or property damage,^[1] and typically leaves some economic damage in its wake, the severity of which depends on the affected population's resilience, or ability to recover and also on the infrastructure available.^[2]

Create a web page named Engineering and place it under the IB trait that this project represents for you. On this page, you will need to keep a photo-journal of your (group's) progress and answer the questions below in sentence form.

PART 1

10 Worst Natural Disasters - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHOUwEEew_o

• 1. What are some types of natural disasters, describe each briefly and what causes them?

  2. What are 3 reasons that we would want to build to prevent fallout from these disasters?

  3. What causes Earthquakes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_328966413&feature=iv&list=UUzWQYUVCpZqtN93H8RR44Qw%20&src_vid=NaNw9LHq9dc&v=7PfTh1Pix8E

  4. What causes earthquakes?

  5. What mountain range resulted from the tectonic plates moving?

  6. Engineering for Earthquakes - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4fKBGsllZI

  7. Regarding earthquakes - What are some things that engineers have to take into account when building?

  8. Why are most building earthquake resistant vs. earthquake proof?

  9. What classifies a building earthquake resistant?

  10. What are the 3 techniques that engineers can use to help make a building resistant to earthquakes describe each technique in your answer?

  11. How is the intensity of an earthquake measured?

  12. How does the Richter Scale work - https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_2469850641&feature=iv&src_vid=c4fKBGsllZI&v=NaNw9LHq9dc

  13. What is the Richter scale?

  14. What is a seismograph?

  15. Every 1.0 point increase on the scale is a ________ fold increase in the power of the earthquake.

  16. What scale describes how we "FEEL" an earthquake? what are some of its ratings?

  17. What is a new measure for quakes and how does it work?

  18. What are some advantages of this new measurement system?

PART 2

Strong design - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QheSSHUbPeE

1. Design 3 buildings (on paper) using each technique listed in the video, at a minimum the building will be 4 distinct floors each 1 popsicle stick high.

2. List the materials you will use for each technique, you may use what is in the materials cart, each material must be identified on your paper.

PART 3

1. Choose a single design (and a partner if you choose) and build that design out of the materials provided.

2. You may test the design as many times as you wish, I will replenish broken materials as long as we have them, there are no guarantees.

3. You are responsible for having a complete building, ready to go on the testing day.

HONORS

1. Tallest building that lasts over a certain period of time ( the building is measured from the foundation of popsicle sticks) and to the ceiling of the top floor.

2. Buildings that last the longest.