I recently saw a documentary in which they moved a large building a hundred miles. They said the estimated weight of the building was 900 tons. What is the formula they would've used to get this estimate?
2006-09-20 15:09:01 · 4 answers · asked by HULK RULES!! 7 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Mathematics
conservative estimate of structural materials mass + other tangibles held within [say it has a safe containing gold bars ... that would make a difference etc yada yada, or a 5,000 gal fish tank or oil tank yada yada mass of the fluids ... u get the idea]
OR they possibly used volumes and then calculated some conservative avg val for a partition of this volume and performed a calculation for the total volume mass
engineers and any scientist will want to go with a conservative # ... one would hate for a road to buckle ...
the only truly interesting thing is how to be more accurate in *any* such calculation ... how conservative is too conservative at times .... dont want to be way tooo conservative with an estimate else there is more waste incurred.
2006-09-20 15:42:54 · answer #1 · answered by xkey 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Before you move it, the original building plans would let you estimate the volume of each type of constructional material, and use a standard density for each one.
When you start to move it, you can make another pretty good estimate from how hard it is to get it moving and keep it moving.
2006-09-21 14:27:47 · answer #2 · answered by bh8153 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You saw that in the history channel ha?
Yeah everything adds up. when the house is constructed, the amount of concrete or wood or steel is documented and add more nails and other stuff you get the total mass estimation.
2006-09-20 22:45:50 · answer #3 · answered by DPLP 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
wood +nails + shingles + paint = 900 ton
2006-09-20 22:12:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋