Egg Challenge 1: Reverse Drop
- elizavetazhuravlev
- Jan 27, 2016
- 2 min read
The purpose of this project was to try to protect an egg from breaking by building a structure around it.
Our directions were that we could only use 12 sheets of paper and 50 cm of masking tape to build a structure that could protect an egg.
Trial #1
Q: How did the structure perform according to the test goals?
A: The squared structure smushed, leaving us to belive that if an egg was inside of the structure, it would be cracked.
Q: What changes would you recommend to improve future design?
A: We decided to change the structure completely since the cube shape on its own seemed not to work
very well.
Trial #2
Q: How did the structure perform according to the test goals?
A: We created a cylinder shape which contained crumbled paper just like the cube. When we tested the structure, it smushed a little and we were not sure if the egg would be fine. We were also worried about the stucture tipping over and crushing the egg,
Q: What changes would you recommend to improve future design?
A: We decided to add a triangle shape at the bottom of the structure so that the structure does not fall.
Trial #3
Q: How did the structure perform according to the test goals?
A: The structure performed well. We think that if an egg was inside, it would have survived.
Q: What changes would you recommend to improve future design?
A: We decided that the structure was fine as it was, so we just rebuilded the same structure for the final design.
The most difficult part of this project in my opinion was after testing the trial structures, trying to figure out if an egg would have survived.
My favorite design was the cylinder shaped structure because I think that cylinders are pretty strong in this aspect.
Our trials indicated that an egg would crush because all the structures were smushed at least a little but after 2 books were thrown onto them.
Our egg survived because the weight literally bounced off of the strcture. Which left the structure unharmed. The structure just flew. The egg would have cracked if there was nothing inside the structure protecting the egg. But since my team and I decided to put crumbled paper inside, the egg just bumped into the smushed paper and was unharmed leaving us with a good grade.
If I were to design differently to make the structure better, I would add another cylinder on top of the already existing cylinder to soften the fall of the weights onto the actual "egg zone".
I really enjoyed doing this project and am excited for the upcoming egg tests.
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