| Author | Message | ||
     Crusier |
I am building a hollow wall (out of wood about 1 by 1 foot, maybe smaller) and will fill it in with various materials and I need a "toy" to test it with do you have an idea of what i could use? | ||
| Simon Quellen Field (Sfield) |
I can imagine dropping a weight onto a nail, and counting how many times you have to drop the weight to pound the nail into the wall. You could also do the reverse -- add weights to a cable attached to a nail in the wall, and see how much weight is needed to remove the nail. You could place the wall in a fireplace over a gas burner and time how long it takes to burn. You could drop the wall from a building or a tree onto a metal pipe and see how high you had to climb to get it to break. You could place the wall across two bricks and run over it with a car or a wheelbarrow full of rocks. Perhaps some other readers will have more suggestions. | ||
| Matthew |
Heh, reminds me of a comic strip (Calvan and Hobbs) where Calvan's dad tells him that to measure the weight of a bridge the construction people that built it run over it with bigger and bigger trucks, untill it breaks. Then they rebuild the bridge. Im guessing that they measure the weight the individual parts can hold and then caculate using some archatecual equation to figgure out the weight whatever the object is can hold. You might try searching for archatecure weight equation or something like that. | ||
| Anonymous |
could you put a piece of plywood on top of a wall, and then stack weighs on it until it breaks? |
