Weston Middle School

Technology/Engineering Course Materials

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Frameworks/MCAS

Additional Material

• Paper Columns
• Floppy Towers
• Holding Up Bricks (Video)

Cathedrals and Bridges:

• Cathedrals
• Local Bridges
• Paper Cup Columns/Arch
• Bridge Examples
  • Sagamore Bridge
• Straw Bridges
• Straw Bridge Testing Jan 2nd 2012
• West Point Bridge Designer
• Throgs Neck Bridge
• New York Times- Constructing a Roller-Coaster Truss
• MIT K-12: Bridge Design and Destruction-Part 1: Beam and Arch Bridges
• MIT+K12: Bridges Part 2- Truss Bridges

ARCHITECTURE:

• Frank Gehry
  • Sketches of Frank Gehry-Intro
  • Part 1
  • Part 2
• Student Work-Google SketchUp
• Site Models
• Affordable Architecture
• Motif#1-1
• Motif#1-2
• Gehry House
• Stata Center-1
• Stata Center-2

TIMBERFRAMING:

• House Project-Gallery
• Vermont Timberworks
  • Timberframe Assembly and Raising
• Trillium Dell Timberworks- Timberframe Raising
• Salisbury Island Gallery
  

Simple Highway Overpass- A Beam Bridge:

Post-and-Beam Bridge, Beverly, MA

Echo Bridge Aqueduct, Newton, MA

Champlain Bridge, Montreal Canada- Cantilever Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge, New York City- Note suspension and cable-stayed features

Bridge on Route 95, Connecticut- Truss and Cantilever

Sagamore Bridge, Cape Cod

Camelback bridge,Maine

Penobscot Bridges, Bucksport, Maine

Section through Penobscot Bridge Box beam

Covered Wood Truss Bridge, Jackson, NH

Cobweb in Room 143- A structure solely in tension

Forces must stay balanced for a structure to be stable!

A bicycle frame is a truss

Tower Crane- What parts are in tension? In compression?

Topping-Out Ceremony- Weston High School Science Wing

Skyscraper by Frank Gehry, NYC

National Geographic: Denmark to Sweden Bridge

West Point Bridges Sept 23rd

Strauss Bascule Bridge at North Station

 Gateshead Millenium Bridge(Video)