LunarRay
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- Mar 2, 2003
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I did an experiment this morning.
I took 8 pavers ( all I could get my wife to let me mess with) and on what I determined to be level ground set them up like a building might be... 8 stories high plus the foundation.
I used as my structural beams Ice cream sticks assembled like inverted V's. I used one set on each corner and two in the center. It looked good, actually. I then took a golf club and swung it so the shaft took away the support between the 7th and 8th paver. The 8th fell but only to the 7th paver... It didn't cause the pancake effect!... OK, I figured I had too much support so I removed a center support... same thing.. I then took out all the center supports and had only the corner support. This time #8 paver fell and caused #7 to fall but in so doing it moved to the side by a few inches... hmmm. I tried all sorts of things to get my pavers to fall all the way down but couldn't. I couldn't remove too many support cuz the pavers didn't have lateral support and would fall to the side.
Anyone have a suggestion on how I can replicate a pancake event using my seven pavers? I only have 7 cuz #8 cracked in my last attempt. I've glued it with concrete epoxy from the office so maybe I can use it when it dries...
I took 8 pavers ( all I could get my wife to let me mess with) and on what I determined to be level ground set them up like a building might be... 8 stories high plus the foundation.
I used as my structural beams Ice cream sticks assembled like inverted V's. I used one set on each corner and two in the center. It looked good, actually. I then took a golf club and swung it so the shaft took away the support between the 7th and 8th paver. The 8th fell but only to the 7th paver... It didn't cause the pancake effect!... OK, I figured I had too much support so I removed a center support... same thing.. I then took out all the center supports and had only the corner support. This time #8 paver fell and caused #7 to fall but in so doing it moved to the side by a few inches... hmmm. I tried all sorts of things to get my pavers to fall all the way down but couldn't. I couldn't remove too many support cuz the pavers didn't have lateral support and would fall to the side.
Anyone have a suggestion on how I can replicate a pancake event using my seven pavers? I only have 7 cuz #8 cracked in my last attempt. I've glued it with concrete epoxy from the office so maybe I can use it when it dries...