Week 8

During class last week, we began by listening to Professor Mitchell explain to us the technique of deriving the different forces distributed throughout the bridge with a single load suspended directly in the middle of the structure. Once his lecture was complete our group began to work with the Method of Joints videos in order to get some of our A3 homework/blog done within the class period.  We got a lot done(almost all the calculations) within the rough hour and a half we had to work. Looking forward to next week, I am hoping we get to use the Truss Designer program more in order to aid our design of the 3' bridge that we will have to build for the final project.  I do believe we will continue with the same design as our 2' bridge but with longer members.