Cardboard Model Airplane Designs
How to simulate twin towers 9/11?
For physics we need to build a 4 foot fake twin tower model and burn it down with a paper airplane. I can’t go buy steel (which it’s made of) or anything but cardboard/aluminum foil type of things work. I need a design that will simulate the twin towers as well as possible but will fall and burn, and a procedure for burning it down (which we will have to do also) Please Answer
Can you post in detail the parameters/guidelines/requirements of your project? Off the cuff, I’m thinking build a tower with supports and floors made of card board or thin wood strips you could get from a hobby store and an aluminum exterior. The twin towers collapsed (supposedly) after the fires melted and compromised the integrity of internal supports and columns. Without them, their weight couldn’t be supported by the external metal supports alone. For your burn, I think you could use wooden matches. They are pretty cheap and burn readily and HOT. You might even be able to use match stick for building the internal supports. Otherwise, just removes the match heads to use as fuel. You want as much weight as possible in the upper portion of your tower to provide the force to collapse your towers and to have as little support as possible in the top. You essentially want a domino reaction where the falling weight of the upper portions breaks through the layers and supports below, which collapse the next floor and the next and so on. The simplest model I have in mind is a bunch of cardboard squares to form the floors, one or two ‘columns’ made of match sticks that support the upper levels, and aluminum foil to form the outer surfaces. You could even removes window sections of foil and replace them with plastic to make the structure less rigid. The cardboard will provide weight to power the collapse. Once the internal matches that support it from the ground up burn away, only the foil will support the building, the floors collapse from the top down, crushing the ones below. Can’t stress enough having the internal supports attached primarily to the very bottom and the top. Like having a tent supported with one single tent pole in the middle. At any rate, I recommend researching the real collapse theories and making test models to see how your materials and design react.
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