Structures

This article focuses on medieval weapons, specifically catapults. There were two catapult designs presented here, the trebuchet and the torsion mangonel. Each were heavy machines used mostly in Europe. Prior to the trebuchet’s domination, the torsion model was common. The efficiency and accuracy achieved by the trebuchet catapult caused the torsion model to become obsolete. The article described further why the trebuchet was the dominant model. In physics my junior year, we were given a fairly “choose as you wish” project that we had to construct or demonstrate something that we could explain some section of our physics book. I built a working model of a trebuchet. The project was a blast and once I cleaned up all the kinks, the catapult was accurate and consistent.

First defining a structure in this connection is necessary. The war machines described in the article can be considered structures and infrastructure makes up the foundation of a city. Conflict can arise within a city or nation, but it can also be found within a city or nation. When building war machine structures the group must decide what its specific tasks are. To determine that the group must understand the opponents infrastructure and its weak points. By understanding these weak points, a group can build the most efficient war structure to conquer the opposing group, thus solving the conflict with a victory. The relationship between structures and infrastructure is all relative to the needs of the individual structures. An engineer must understand the needs and tasks a certain structure is to preform to design something that is actually useful. Without that information, the structure has no purpose and is therefore not beneficial to those the structure was designed for. In the case that conflict arises within a nation, infrastructure can have a lot to do with that. Solid infrastructure will always thrive over the more poorly constructed regions of an area. Moral of the story, solid infrastructure will be beneficial in the long run and make physical conflict a more difficult way to approach issues that arise between two parties.