Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Design Situation

Desing a trussed bridge that can support a load of 4.0kg when it is placed on the bottom truss.

The best design will be the one with best specific (strength to weight ratio) at this load.

Engineers are not always interested in designing the strogest bridge. They are more interested in designing the best bridge to do the job.

A second challenge requires the bridge to be tested to destuction in order to determine its overall specific strength.

Restrictions

- The bridge is to be made from 3 mm x 3 mm paddle pop sticks.
-The total mass

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