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Technology 7
Home
Units
Getting Acquainted
What is technology and engineering?
Paper Columns
Floppy Towers
Bill Nye-Structures
Arches
Beams
Building Big- Bridges
West Point Bridge Designer
Straw Bridges
Parts of a House
Robotics
Robotics Videos
Maqueen Microbit Robots
Microbits-Basic
Structures Vocabulary
Standards
Eng Standards
Digital Literacy Content Standards
Digital Literacy Practice Standards
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Home
Units
Getting Acquainted
What is technology and engineering?
Paper Columns
Floppy Towers
Bill Nye-Structures
Arches
Beams
Building Big- Bridges
West Point Bridge Designer
Straw Bridges
Parts of a House
Robotics
Robotics Videos
Maqueen Microbit Robots
Microbits-Basic
Structures Vocabulary
Standards
Eng Standards
Digital Literacy Content Standards
Digital Literacy Practice Standards
Arches
Demonstration: Arch Bridge
Cathedrals and Arches
Numberphile: Catenary Arches
-Catenary arches are self-supporting
By combining materials with different mechanical properties, structural elements can be made stronger
A stone arch works solely in compression.
Mortar, when used primarily serves to transmit compressive forces, rather than to "stick" the stones together.
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