The Story of Our Concrete Canoe for the ASCE Competition

1
The Story of Our Concrete Canoe for the ASCE
Competition

• January-Spring 2002

2
Day 1 - Waxing
3
Day 2 - Waxing
4
Day 2 - Fiberglass side 1
5
Day 3 - Female Fiberglass mold side 1
6
Day 3 - Fiberglass side 2
7
Day 4 - Measuring for the Wood Frame
8
Day 5 - Halves make a whole
9
Day 5 - Fitting wood frames to mold
10
Day 6 - Building the Wooden Frames
11
Day 7 - Fiberglass and wood come together
12
Day 8 - Mold ready and cleaned
13
Day 9 - Curing concrete specimens
14
Day 10 - Strength testing concrete specimens
15
Day 11 - Using putty to fill in crack between two
halves of the mold
16
Day 11 Fitting steel mesh to the shape of the
mold
17
Day 11 - Tieing mesh together with steel wire to
create curvature
18
Day 12 - Hundreds of A paperclips to space mesh
from mold
19
Day 13 - Styrofoam keeps concrete
cross-reinforcement from spreading
20
Day 13 - Spreading the concrete finally
21
Day 14 - Sanding down concrete edges after curing
for over a week
22
Day 14 - Canoe seeing daylight!
23
Day 14 - Ready to go in the MIT moat.jpg
24
Day 14 - Paddle Paddle Paddle
25
Day 14 - Attracting visitors
26
Day 14 - Regulation states canoe must float while
FILLED with water
27
Day 14 - Go Team (a few members)
28
Day 14 - The heartbreaking discovery of a crack
in the canoe