Week 7

This week in class we were introduced to the calculations that allow us to analyze each member of our bridge. We spent the majority of the class period discussing the calculations and working on the calculations to make sure that we all understood what that calculations were and what they all meant. We also worked with Bridge Designer. We made the bridge that we had to calculate the forces for and compared the forces we calculated with the forces that came up on bridge designer. The calculated forces and the ones given by bridge designer were relatively similar.
Now we can use this new found information to build our next bridge. This information will allow us to remove the beams that do not have any forces on them as well as add beams to better distribute the forces that are present.