Which material holds the strongest?

[rainhorse]

So to keep it quick, I am doing the project "which material holds the strongest?"
I have got straw (liquid) pasta sticks (dry) and something else. What else should I do? I am having trouble. What is the control? Do I have to add it?
Finally, what design do you recommend? I plan to do a 2d square shape.
Thank You.
EDIT:
Sorry for that
https://www.sciencebuddies.org/science- ... 9.shtmlthe link is:
I wanted to add my own twist on it, and dont want to do it on a scale that big.

[deleted-71882]

Hello rainhorse,

I can't find a project on the Science Buddies web site named "which material holds the strongest?" Can you provide a link to it? Otherwise, I need more information to answer your questions.

[deleted-71709]

Let's see if I have this straight. You'd like to do an experiment similar to the one described as "He Huffed, and He Puffed, But Didn't Blow the House Down! How Can Straw Make a Sturdy Building?", but you don't want to use straw bales. You want to do it on a smaller scale?

First, you'll need a material similar to straw - something that most people think cannot stand up to water. The pasta might work, but it's really stiff, and you would have to find a way to form it into a bale.

Straw is a material that is a hollow cylinder of cellulose material. Each stem of straw is about 1/8" in diameter - typically. One option is to take a standard bale of straw, break it apart, and make miniature bales - say 6"x6"x12" - by pressing the straw into a wooden form. You could then tie it together with string in a manner similar to how the bale was tied before you broke it open.

To make the bales even smaller, you would have to find a material similar to agricultural straw. Some dried grasses might work. They would have to be smaller versions of these hollow cylinders. You could then press them into miniature bales, tie them with string, and do this experiment.

I hope these ideas help.

Whatever you do, have fun!!

[rainhorse]

Thanks!
I guess I will have to convince my mom to go take me to a store which has strawbales .
lol!
Thanks again !