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Introduction:
The West Point Bridge Builder program,
is a very flexible program designed to give you the
opportunity to design several different bridge styles while
concentrating on the actual design process and not the
mathematics involved in designing bridges. This will give
you a fairly realistic hands on experience to engineering
and designing. Use this program to put together what you
have learned about bridges.
Good luck and have fun!
Guidelines:
1. Practice:
- Select a design
project
- Single Span with
Anchorage's
- Select a standard truss
template
- Suspension bridge one
- Suspension bridge
two
- Click on "finish" to start
designing this bridge. This design is just a practice
design (why you are using a template) to give you the
opportunity to become familiar with how this program
works.
2. Challenge:
- Create a new bridge
design.
- Select a design project.
- Single Span with
Anchorage's
- Select a standard truss
template
- No template &endash; Make your own
bridge design
- Enter information for title
block
- Enter your name & a name for
your bridge
- Click on "finish" and begin
designing your bridge
- Once your bridge is designed, test
it.
Goals:
- Design a bridge that when tested
does not collapse.
- You can test your bridge and make
changes as you feel are necessary (within reason) until
you are satisfied with your bridge.
- Design a bridge that is cost
effective.
- Design a bridge that has aesthetic
value.
- Design a bridge that has the
proper style type for the intended use.
- Design a bridge that has
form.
- Design a bridge that has
function.
Criteria for Assessment (Evaluation) -
[50 pts. / 10 pts. for each category] :
- Cost
- Form
- Function
- Design Application (Style
Type)
- Aesthetic Value
When your bridge is finished and you
are satisfied with your design print a copy of it and turn
it in. Save your project to your Bath LAN
account.
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