Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Disel - Week 3 Blog Entry

This week we used the West  Point Bridge Designer software to make a simple design of a bridge. Using the software was really easy and we were able to try may different things in a short time. We tried a lot of shapes but we realized that triangles are the best shape to work with because they are really stable  We also started to design our own bridge and looked for which design seemed the best. Even that we worked with the software, trying to design a bridge which would be stable so the truck could pass we were not able to design a bridge during the lab. I think that we should work more with West Point Bridge Designer software so we can build a bridge with the best performance which means that can be stable and doesn't cost too much.


Here are some questions that I want to ask Mr. Bhatt:

 1.) What would be a price in the market for a two lanes bridge 44m long that has no pier or cable anchorages  made from medium-strength concrete?

 2.) Which type of triangle is the most stable one?

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