How to design a watchtower for two lifeguards in tensegrity?

Teaching

Published on April 17, 2024 – Updated on June 17, 2024

In the framework of the transdisciplinary project TRAN-H-201, the BATir department has welcomed 3 groups of students during the 2023-2024 academic year: in total, 14 boys and 5 girls studying in the 2nd year of their Bachelor in Engineering Sciences at EPB. The challenge was to build a 3.6m high watchtower for two lifeguards using steel cables and bars and capable of supporting two loads of 80 kg at its top; all with a tensegrity structure design! This has resulted in three different and original projects that have been built by the students themselves all together and tested inside the civil engineering laboratory at real scale! This was a very successful project for all the students and also for the supervising team composed by two young assistants (Diana Chami and Chaïmae Bouiyed) from LGM and SMC units and two technicians (Olivier Leclercq and Guillaume Deneyer) from LGM and LGC units coordinated by Professor Stéphanie Staquet.

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on the April 17, 2024

How to design a watchtower for two lifeguards in tensegrity?

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