This week, we actually used the West Point Bridge Designer to get a hang of what the software is like. We also started designing our own bridges and looked for which designs seemed the best. We were able to play around with the shapes and structures of the bridge and see that the bridges with triangles seemed like to be the most stable. We were not able to come up with a strong structure that will hold the truck up too, but we were able to figure out that triangles in the structure work best. We agreed as a team to further improve on our bridge designs in the coming week using the best parts of each of our designs. The major accomplishment this week was that the team as a whole was able to understand how to work the program and how triangles in the structure of a bridge make the structure sturdier. There were no issues within the team, but we were not able to come up with a strong bridge that could hold the truck during the class period so we have to work on that.
Questions I would want to ask to Mr. Jay Bhatt are,
- How do compression and tension forces relate to the structure of the bridge?
- What is the preferred bridge type in certain circumstances and restraints?
- What is the strongest bridge design?
- Where can I find information about strong bridges under certain limited conditions?
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