Fallturm Bremen is a drop tower at the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity at the University of Bremen in Bremen. Drop Tower, formerly known as Drop Zone Stunt Tower, are thrill rides of varying sizes but all of the same name owned by five Cedar Fair parks The University of Bremen ( German Universität Bremen) is a university of approximately 23500 people from 126 countries that are studying teaching researching and Bremen (ˈbʁeːmən is a Hanseatic city in northwestern Germany (official name Stadtgemeinde Bremen / City Municipality of Bremen It has a 123-meter-high drop tube (actual drop distance is 110 m), in which for 4. 74 seconds (with release of the drop capsule), or for over 9 seconds (with the use of a catapult, installed in 2004) weightlessness can be produced. A catapult is any one of a number of non-handheld mechanical devices used to throw a Projectile a great distance without the aid of an explosive substance—particularly various Weightlessness is a phenomenon experienced by people during Free-fall. The entire tower, formed out of a reinforced concrete shank, is 146 meters high. Concrete is a construction material composed of Cement (commonly Portland cement) as well as other cementitious materials such as Fly ash and Slag
The 123-meter drop tube is free-standing within the concrete shell, in order to prevent the transmission of wind-induced vibrations, which could otherwise result in the airtight drop capsule hitting the walls. Oscillation is the repetitive variation typically in Time, of some measure about a central value (often a point of Equilibrium) or between two or more different states The drop tube is pumped down prior to every free-fall experiment to about 10 Pa (~ 1/10 000 atmosphere). Evacuation takes about 1. 5 hours.
External links
- Fallturm Bremen in the Structurae database
- http://rats.muenster.org/faecher/physik/exkursionen/fallturm/fallturm_bremen.htm
- http://www.zarm.uni-bremen.de/