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    The document provides instructions for an engineering structures activity. Students are asked to choose one type of structure from a list that includes buildings, dams, bridges, tunnels, arches, cables, domes, towers, shells, and trusses. They must download a picture of an existing structure of that type, along with a brief engineering description and a citation of the source. An example is provided of a shell structure, the Sydney Opera House. It describes key engineering details of the interlocking vaulted shells, including that each shell is made of precast concrete rib segments held together with tensioned steel cable.

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    The document provides instructions for an engineering structures activity. Students are asked to choose one type of structure from a list that includes buildings, dams, bridges, tunnels, arches, cables, domes, towers, shells, and trusses. They must download a picture of an existing structure of that type, along with a brief engineering description and a citation of the source. An example is provided of a shell structure, the Sydney Opera House. It describes key engineering details of the interlocking vaulted shells, including that each shell is made of precast concrete rib segments held together with tensioned steel cable.

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    The document provides instructions for an engineering structures activity. Students are asked to choose one type of structure from a list that includes buildings, dams, bridges, tunnels, arches, cables, domes, towers, shells, and trusses. They must download a picture of an existing structure of that type, along with a brief engineering description and a citation of the source. An example is provided of a shell structure, the Sydney Opera House. It describes key engineering details of the interlocking vaulted shells, including that each shell is made of precast concrete rib segments held together with tensioned steel cable.

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    ACTIVITY 1 - Theory 1

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    The document provides instructions for an engineering structures activity. Students are asked to choose one type of structure from a list that includes buildings, dams, bridges, tunnels, arches, cables, domes, towers, shells, and trusses. They must download a picture of an existing structure of that type, along with a brief engineering description and a citation of the source. An example is provided of a shell structure, the Sydney Opera House. It describes key engineering details of the interlocking vaulted shells, including that each shell is made of precast concrete rib segments held together with tensioned steel cable.

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    COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND ARCHITECTURE

    Activity No
    1 – Engineering Structures
    and Title:
    Name of
    Theory of Structures 1 Student:
    Date
    Submitted:

    GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS:

    (1) You can download this form and use it for all submitted activities in this subject.
    (2) Upload a pdf file to CANVAS.
    (3)The uploaded file will bear a filename: Activity1_Theory1_FAMILY NAME,GIVEN NAME

    ACTIVITY 1 : Download one picture of existing structures of the following type. Include a brief
    engineering description of the structure and cite your source of information.
    1. Building
    2. Dam
    3. Bridge (Railway or Highway)
    4. Tunnel
    5. Arch
    6. Cable
    7. Dome
    8. Tower
    9. Shell
    10. Truss

    Example:

    SHELL STRUCTURE
    Sydney Opera House sits on Bennelong
    It was built on Bennelong Point adjacent
    to Jon Bradfiled's Sydney Harbour Bridge
    where it would be visible from all sides.
    At the centre of Utzon’s distinctive
    design was a set of interlocking vaulted
    shells that became one of the most
    challenging engineering projects ever
    attempted. Each of the shells is made of
    pre-cast concrete rib segments rising to
    a ridge beam, held together by 350 km of
    tensioned steel cable. Geometrically,
    each half of each shell is a segment of a
    sphere; however, the 'sails' were originally designed as parabolas, for which an
    engineering solution could not be found. Although described as reinforced-concrete
    shells, they are in fact a series of concrete ribs that support a total of 2,194 precast-
    concrete roof panels which are in turn clad with over 1 million tiles. The tile surface is
    highly detailed and uses two types of tile - one glossy white, one matte cream - with clearly
    expressed joints. The design of the shells involved one of the earliest uses of computer
    analysis to understand the complex forces they would be subject to, and it took some
    years to find the solution - that all the shells would be created as sections from a sphere,
    supported on arched ribs. This solution avoided the need for expensive formwork
    construction by allowing the use of precast units which could be tiled at ground level.
    Large parts of the site were used throughout construction as 'factories' for these precast
    components.
    https://www.designingbuildings.co.uk/wiki/
    Sydney_Opera_House#Design_and_construction

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