The TRUSSING Project

Oh crap!!! Speaking of this project, it gave me goosebumps >.< ,and it took like half of my time in seven weeks just to complete this project. What I meant was my Engineering Structures Project 1, a unit which is a foundation of Civil Engineering. In this project, we like... gotta pretend tat we are groups of engineers, tendering for building the best truss to support the roof in the Shizuoka World Cup 2002 football stadium, and we have 7 weeks to complete this project. And we have to form a group of 5 persons, which consist of my friends, Lip Boon, who is the group leader, Kee Siang, Tom and Jerry and me, naming our group "YouCube"( Adapted from the famous sharing video website YouTube, though nothing connected with this website) Our group name and logo, YouCube( nothing connected with YouTube,
its just our name for our group project, no means of plagarism)

For this project, we have to do lots of tedious calculation, including calculating the loads acting on it, the reaction tat support the truss. Hehe... our truss design

But one of the most hectic part is to use Method of section and joints to calculate every member, ie: rods in the truss. Sounds easy isnt it? But one calculation wrong will cause the whole project to get wrong. And this is exactly happened to us many many times, before we finally got the right values. Not only that, if we found out that one of the member will buckle or yield, we have to start all over again, analyze the structure, and redo the calculation.
Towards the day of presentation, which was on 4 days ago, we gotta come back to Monash in the weekends just to complete this project. Even after all the hectic calculation, we still gotta prepare the slides for presentation and reports. Thank god, we manage to finish in time, and prepare ourselves for the presentation. Whew!!


But tats not the end. I heard those students under Dr Jefferey Chiang who presented on Monday session, were shot kaw kaw by Dr Jeffrey, who is famous for his sterness, and his motto" MOVE ON!!"... lolx :p...This gave us even more pressure for the presentation, as we were shot few times during tutorials, as we were not discussing our project during that time. And finally, the moment of truth had finally arrived. On that day, we were the fourth group who were asked to present. After the first 3 groups presented, and finally. its our turn to present. Gee

We gave it our best during presentation. Lip Boon, Kee Siang, Tom and Jerry and me were doing very good in our presentation, and we manage to make Dr Jefferey laughed... lol.... by the word "aweeeeeeesome" in our truss.. lol.... The secret weapon: Aweeeesome... lol

He was almost kena zha too, when asking us y we didnt incline our truss, which we gotta prove ourselves tat we did an assumption tat it is horizontal for easier calculation, by showing our slides.... gee, after all the hectic weeks, the project, and me of course, finally UNTRUSSED with our hard work paid off which ends up very well...... whew....
Gosh, honestly, this was the most boring project I have done. Thankfully the next project for Eng. Structures required us to build a bridge, which will be fun. Hahha, I tell more bout it after that project end next time.....