User:Sahmed1890/enes100/bridges/501 DAS 2

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Week0 Activities
Staying on the Bridges project...

We now have to start building the actual bridge for this phase of the project..

We still haven't got any more information on the one-meter long spaghetti... So we still don't have the material required to start building the bridge..

Sketching the bridge on a piece of paper...

Week1 Activities
The main aim was to start with the actual construction for the arc. I bought two boxes of Barilla Rigatoni pasta which is the one we will be using for the construction of the arc. Now we have to test it using the glue gun and also the epoxy glue to find out which is better suited for this pasta. We met on Tuesday to start building the structure for the arc. We used the hot glue gun on the rigatoni pasta to stick them together. But the glue gun is not strong enough to hold the pieces in places. So we have to find another alternative. We are going to try out with the Epoxy glue. Another main problem is the shaping of the arc. Since we need it in an arc shape we have to be very precise with the cutting. A solution is to use the cutter which is there in the lab. Mr. Foerster showed it to me and i think it is very good for the purpose. Now will try that also. Another method of bending the pieces of pasta is to steam boil it. Have to boil a pot of water and cover it with aluminium foil and make a small hole on the foil to let steam pass out. Keeping the pasta in the steam vent will soften it and it will be easy to bend it. Then we can cool it to make it hardened again. Will try this method too Using the glue gun to glue the pasta together.

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Week2 Activities
I used the hot glue gun on the pasta to stick them together. However i noticed that we do not need to coat the entire pasta with glue because the pasta itself is very strong and is very difficult to break with bare hands.

However, after applying the hot glue i found out that the hot glue isn't strong enough to hold the pastas together. It breaks apart at the slightest of pressure. Now this is not good for a bridge that is supposed to hold a lot of weight.

Hence, we encountered another problem.

Used the cutting machine which Mr.Foerster showed me the other day to cut the pasta into a specific shape. The cutting was not a huge problem but the main problem we encountered was how to hold the pasta while it is being cut. We had another holding machine which would hold the pasta while i can cut it. However we had to be very careful with the amount of pressure we put on it, because a slight variation would actually break the pasta or otherwise not hold it properly.

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Assign Task2
So we are going to work on the cutting techniques. We also haven't yet gotten the design paper which one of the team members have drawn, and are waiting for it to go forward with the designing process. Will try different ways to glue the pasta together with the hot glue gun on the weekend.

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