Week 7

Last week, I loaded the 'Love Train' as Gary video taped the breakage and Izzy saved me from the killer 'bar of death' and the impending doom when the bridge finally broke.  Once we saw that the bridge only held about 29 lbs., we decided we could make a quick fix and attempt again... The quick fix was only an addition of two more pieces to prevent the torsion forces from bending our bridge.  It ended up working ridiculously well with an outcome of ~47 lbs. held.  Within the next few weeks, our group will design a 36 inch or greater bridge.  A larger design of the same structure might prove to work extremely well but we'll only find out if we try.  If possible, I would like to find out the strength ratios on each piece like the WPBD gives in order to improve that designated region to get the strength as close to 1.00 as possible without going over.  Once we learn force distribution we will be able to do strength calculations ourselves without the use of a program.