Instructor: Matt Turner
Students: Faiyaz Mohammed, Alex Wong
We looked at what Faiyaz and Alex came up with for 2006 design profiles. Matt broke them down piece by piece with specific emphasis on the need to adhere to the usability, dimensions, and other parts of the Rule book that are easy to overlook. After the breakdown, we went back to Salt Lake City and looked at NDSU, SUNY Canton and Wisconsin's bridges of 2006 and broke down their performance. It was obviously an efficiency year, and while some teams overloaded their bridge with material to get a minimal stiffness, NDSU kept the bridge as heavy as it needed to be and still came out ahead in the Efficiency category.
Structural Deisgn notes for 2006:
a. positive use of truss geometry
b. constructability over asymmetric river
c. initial truss angle, steep vs. flatter
d. design for load location...global or local stiffness approach
e. absolute need for precision in connections
The goal for next Thursday, July 26, will be to take a stab at the 2005 design scenario. Hopefully, after the first try things will get more detailed.
2 weeks 'til Rules.
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