Thursday, April 2, 2015

Week 1

Week 1
This week we decided on our magnificent structure: the CCTV Headquarters Tower in Beijing, China. The tower is created from mostly cement and glass. The loads we have to account for are slim to none but we will examine the effects of earthquakes in our research.

Figure 1: Night View of CCTV Tower in Beijing, China

Sources:
http://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/cctv/

https://spfaust.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/daringly-engineered-cctv-tower-beijing-opens-after-10-years/

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