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3/5/2018 1 Term Project Option! Course Grading and Evaluation • Attendance to Monday’s sessions: 40% • 10 reflection sheets: 60% OR 7 reflection sheets: 40% + Team Term Project: 20% Project Ideas (or come up with your own) • Fabricate and non‐destructively test one or more skateboards • Build and non‐destructively test a small wood grid shell • Fabricate and destructively test a CLT panel Wood is a smart composite material Anatomy of the cell wall
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Term Project Option!
Course Grading and Evaluation• Attendance to Monday’s sessions: 40%• 10 reflection sheets: 60%
OR7 reflection sheets: 40% + Team Term Project: 20%
Project Ideas (or come up with your own)• Fabricate and non‐destructively test one or more skateboards• Build and non‐destructively test a small wood grid shell• Fabricate and destructively test a CLT panel
Wood is a smart composite materialAnatomy of the cell wall
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Wood vs. bamboo micro‐fibril angle
Wood fiber Bamboo
Fiber orientation is optimized for stressAnatomy of the cell wall
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Advanced hockey stick design
Bending – axial stress (tension and compression)
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Torsion – pure shear stress
Composite stacking sequence
Inside a ski:
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