
17-11-2011, 13:40
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Taking a year (mostly) off
 FRC #0254 (The Cheesy Poofs), FRC #0341 (Miss Daisy)
Team Role: Engineer
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Join Date: Nov 2002
Rookie Year: 2001
Location: San Francisco, CA
Posts: 3,082
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Re: [BB] The wooden beams have started creaking
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Originally Posted by 1075guy
Well, in my experience, pallets are typically 4x4, stacked ~4-5ft high.
From that, and the per-pallet weights, we could approximate material density, which could give us some insight into what materials the "game-specific" stuff is.
8000 lbs of 1/4" polycarb is 472.3m^2, assuming I did the math correctly. (based on 1.21g/cm^3).
27ft x 1m of polycarb for the alliance walls, times 2 alliances per field times 19 fields is 312.7248m^2, leaves 159.5752m^2 of polycarb.
18" x 54ft sidewalls *2, * 19 = 285.9538m^2 of polycarb. This means that its either not all 1/4" polycarb (anybody know what thickness the walls have been in past?), or I screwed up the math somewhere.
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The driver station polycarbonate is at least 3/8" thick.
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