K'Nex Buildings: Cross Bracing and Pendulum Tuned Mass Damper
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This classroom demonstration utilizes a manual shake table to teach K-12 students about earthquake engineering concepts. Topics covered include cross bracing and pendulum tuned mass dampers. This acitvity can be employed in a lesson plan centered on engineering and science principles such as Newton's Laws of Motion, pendulums, frequency, period, oscillation, damping, energy, forces, acceleration, earthquakes, earthquake engineering, and more.
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Additional details can be found in the teachers supplemental written by Heidi Falson at Peer Berkeley HERE
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Jason Lloyd; NEES EOT (2011), "K'Nex Buildings: Cross Bracing and Pendulum Tuned Mass Damper," http://nees.org/resources/2911.
