Name: Mohamadou Sawadogo
Mentor: Rafael Niyazov
Abstract: The ultimate purpose of this research is to determine the how elements of Engineering frameworks react right before collapsing. During the experiments, different masses were loaded to the truss system, and data were collected. The member that has the highest internal force was removed and replace by an adjustable solid element. Then, after collection of data, the elements that were replace by the solid element were completely removed, and the experiment were run again. After that, data were compared. All those experiments were first done on a 3D module of the truss then on a 2D to confirm the result.
The expectation was to compare our data with the truss model with ultimate load, but the unexpected pandemic affected to perform the final experimental research.
BARS-Mohamadou-Sawadogo
