The 9th National Earthquake Competition (NEC) was held on 25 Apr 2018. This was the nineth year that the School of Architecture and the Built Environment (Singapore Polytechnic) was holding this event, and the first time it was hosted in the newly-renovated Dream Builder 1, the key workshop for the Diploma in Civil Engineering with Business students. The objective of the NEC is to generate interests among current secondary school students on the importance of structural engineering, by involving them in designing and fabricating models of multi-storey buildings that would be tested on a 2D Earthquake Simulator. Only simple materials such as timber strips, cotton strings and glue were used to build the models.
It was an exciting and fulfilling learning experience for the audience, as they observed how some structures succumb to the (simulated) forces of nature – a combination of dead weights as well as ground acceleration exerted by the shaking table – and also studied how some structures were able to survive several rounds of testing unscathed. When the final results were announced, SST came in as one of the 8 Merit Award winners.
The SST team comprises of
Triston Lim Minghui (S3-01), Chua Rui Ming (S3-02), Chua Li Qi Eleanor (S3-02), and Alya Sufiyah Bte Mohamed Subhan (S3-05).
We congratulate them for their efforts and interest in this activity.
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