Been given a request by a friend who is doing an engineering course in college. Currently his project entails strength of materials and he has been asked to aquire 4 boxes made of 4 different materials, his choice. They are to be tested to destruction. How I don't know, neither does my friend. Well he's asked me to make a box out of wood and I've been told to make it strong. Box has to be hollow for equipment. 6 inches inside space, exterior no more than 12 inches. No foreign material, i.e screws, nails etc etc but epoxies and glues are. I was thinking of getting something like a roof joist, 6inches thick/ 12inches wide cutting two squares out of it, carving out the centre and gluing the two halves together with long wooden dowels or biscuits.
Well what do you think? Is there another way? What would you do different?
TR