Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Week 5


This week in lab we looked at each of our designs and decided which we thought was the best design that had the smallest strength to cost ratio. This ended up being Ling’s bridge. We did tweak it a little bit and added some aspects of George’s bridge into it. The goal for this week was to use the Knex pieces and to try to build a bridge that we thought would accomplish this goal. Next week in class we will be have a competition in the class to see which group’s bridge has the smallest cost to strength ratio. Some problems that we came across were that we each thought that our initial bridge designs were the best, so we had trouble coming to a consensus. We discussed and started building and realized who’s was the best and what we could do to improve it.

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