Cesar's Engineering

This picture shows pieces of cardboard that will be used to make a practice piece of a gusset demonstration that will be used in STEAM Day at the Middle School to interest students into joining STEAM. This after picture shows a complete demonstration of what we plan to make with aluminum. There will be two corner pieces, one will be left complete alone to show how weak it is while another one will be reinforced with a gusset to show how strong it can be. The picture above shows a hollow beam of aluminum that will be cut up to use it as the corners that will be used in the demonstration. Four pieces of aluminum will be cut to from the two different corners that will be used for the demonstration. The picture shows four different beams, all of them will be used to make two corners however only one corner will have the gusset attached on. This is to demonstrate the difference between the both and how strong it can be with just a simple triangle. Thi...