Thursday, October 13, 2011

Load Bearing Platform

The task was to design and construct a 9x17" platform from very thin chip board/card stock that could hold a minimum of one 20oz coffee cup of sand and be as light as possible.  This little beauty held 10 cups and weighed about half the average...my load per square of weight ratio was nearly twice the next nearest platform.  And the failure was catastrophic and wonderful!