The Monstro and the Everest were analyzed today. Both have their good aspects, especially Everest, it's very buildable with a few extra bolts at midspan. Monstro looked good despite it's lack of depth.
On advice from Jessica, we'll try the Big V's a bit shallower to see how it performs, we need to reach up top, and quite frankly we've only got one 6 footer on the Team right now.
Tuesday, November 14th at 6:10 p.m. is our next meeting. We'll meet in the Chrome Ollie Loft in 1203 Bainer Hall. Discussion will include the numbers for all four trusses we've looked at so far, we need to talk constructability concerns, lateral arrangements, and sequence, because that will most likely determine the final decision. After making a decision here in the next couple of weeks, we need to concentrate on building the best bridge possible and then get it ready for practice at San Jo this April.
On the football front: NDSU killed Cal Poly, Sac State lost to Matt's hometown PSU Vikings. The Cal Poly loss is bad for the Aggies, as it makes Univ. of San Diego look better to the I-AA playoff committee. UC Davis has already agreed to bow out of the Nov. 25th contest with the Toreros in the event that they make the playoffs (we are playoff ineligible until next year). Right now we're at 4-5, and a win against Sac State and USD would ensure our 38th consecutive winning season. So everybody needs to show up at Toomey on the 18th for the 53rd Causeway Classic, after that, it's in the committee's hands as to whether or not USD will come to town...not that anybody will be there, it's Thanksgiving.
Design/Analyze on...
p.s. - Granite just chipped in for $2000 - this means we might be able to buy those test girders from PDM. Matt will get the quote from PDM on that, while Jessica checks with Dillsburg on those sizes to see if we get to go into a deeper tinker on the best choices so far.
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