Objectives
Design and build the highest-impact-load-resistant plain or reinforced concrete Egg Protection Device (EPD). Learn about concrete’s sustainable benefits related to durability, impact resistance, and other real-life aspects which an EPD simulates.
This year the EPD competition will be used to evaluate a potential structure for long-term protection of a high-value military asset. The structure must be designed to protect the asset (egg) from repeated aerial bombardment as well as potential chemical attack. In designing the EPD, consideration should be made for structural resistance of repeated and increasing loading, as well as durability of the concrete mixture. Reinforcing placement and design plays a large role in the survivability of the structure as well as overall density and durability of the concrete mixture itself. Physical strength will be tested by dropping a weight onto the structure while durability will be measured by performing resistivity on samples of the concrete mixture. The teams that most successfully create a durable structure will be rewarded.
Rules
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