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\nPASCO have a tower in their Structures area that can simulate a tall building \u2013 https:\/\/www.pasco.com\/products\/lab-apparatus\/structures\/shaking-tower<\/a>
\nIt is aimed at examining the resonance modes and the effectiveness of passive damping \u2013 https:\/\/www.pasco.com\/products\/lab-apparatus\/structures\/shaking-tower-experiment<\/a>
\nAssembly required and it may be quite expensive, particularly if you want an accelerometer for every floor and associated PASCO data logger.
\nHere is a link to a YT video of the apparatus \u2013 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fv4T_rnsUh4<\/a><\/p>\n
\nA cruder version may be built with some wooden blocks as the floors and hacksaw blades as the vertical structural members.
\nThe blades would have to all have the same orientation and cross-bracing should not be used, otherwise the structure will be too stiff.
\nIt would be constructed like a vertical wig-wag inertia balance, but with multiple levels and a hacksaw blade at each of the four corners.
\nThe wooden blocks should be thick enough so that two blade connections can be made at each corner without the blades overlapping each other.
\nFlat spring steel or strapping steel could be used but hacksaw blades are probably easiest to source.
\nInertia Balance video \u2013 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WCDRDx-ika8<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThere are numerous fixed, models available to show plate tectonics processes.
\nMTA list some on their website \u2013 https:\/\/www.teaching.com.au\/search?q=tectonics<\/a><\/p>\n
\nThere are demo sets, such as shown on Flinn Scientific\u2019s website \u2013 https:\/\/www.flinnsci.com\/tectonics-model\u2014demonstration-kit\/ap7178\/<\/a>
\nSpectrum have a similar item \u2013 https:\/\/spectrumed.ca\/en\/tectonics-model-set<\/a>
\nThese items may provide ideas for an apparatus you could build inhouse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"