At school we have to make shoes to walk on eggs. We can use foam, styro foam, rubber, and bubble wrap?

Posted on January 22, 2010 by admin

we can use different items also

Foam sounds like a good material for contact with the eggs, it would avoid stress concentrations at the highest point. Also… can you make the shoes considerably larger than a typical shoe (Sasquatch shoes?), to distribute the weight over more eggs? Snowshoes work by distributing weight like that. You would need something rigid to distribute the weight (styrofoam?) with thick rubber foam attached to the bottom.

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3 Responses to At school we have to make shoes to walk on eggs. We can use foam, styro foam, rubber, and bubble wrap?

  1. MMM says:
    January 22, 2010 at 4:40 pm

    Actually, I would use something firm but flexible like rubber.

    Egg shells have great tensile strength, so you really want to distribute the weight across the entire eggshell rather than on one set point.

    Just a thought.
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  2. secret asian man says:
    January 22, 2010 at 5:26 pm

    wow just step on the eggs and break them and make the teachers clean up
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  3. O-360 says:
    January 22, 2010 at 5:54 pm

    Foam sounds like a good material for contact with the eggs, it would avoid stress concentrations at the highest point. Also… can you make the shoes considerably larger than a typical shoe (Sasquatch shoes?), to distribute the weight over more eggs? Snowshoes work by distributing weight like that. You would need something rigid to distribute the weight (styrofoam?) with thick rubber foam attached to the bottom.
    References :