Balsa Wood Tower
Aaron Iverson, Guadalupe Hernandez, Albert Pineda, Erick Garcia, Austin Luong
School of Engineering
Faculty Supervisor: Zhaoshuo Jiang
We will be building a balsa wood tower consisting of variable width. This means that the tower will be small at the base and get wider as we move to the top and have various overhangs. To build this tower, we anticipate much work to be done in SAP2000 to figure out the angles we need to set the wood, as well as maintaining accurate and precise measurements from the design to the construction process. The specifications we will abide by are the Earthquake Engineering Research Institute (EERI) Official Rules and enter our project into the 2024 EERI competition.