During our third week of engineering lab, we finally got to use the West Point Bridge Designer program. Although we didn't have any background knowledge about bridges, we were able to find out what kinds of structures worked and which didn't. It was a great learning experience at the time for not having previous knowledge. Now that we know a bit more about WPBD, we are able to create our own designs that can won't collapse. We haven't really had any problems as a group, and I think we will be able to respect each other's designs when we show them to each other. We will probably take the best components from all of our designs and morph them into a super bridge. The only issue we had was that we couldn't get a functioning bridge during the class time.
Here are some questions that I want to ask Mr. Bhatt:
1) How do I know which bridge works best under which scenario? I.E why can't I use a suspension bridge all the time?
2) What are all of the variables I need be aware of when designing a bridge?
3) What are the normal price ranges for bridges? or how expensive/cheap have bridges been?
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