Bell Weekly Blog- Week 3

Throughout this week, our group basically learned the basics of the West Point Bridge Design program. We learned how to created a serviceable bridge, while keeping the cost in mind by not adding meaningless members. This week, our group has accomplished one bridge design each that was able to be serviceable to the truck. In the upcoming week, our group will mess around with some different materials and sizes of the members. 

Questions:

1.  Which materials are strongest for tension and compression?

2.  Which bridge design is better; a bridge with trusses under the asphalt or a bridge with trusses above the asphalt?

3.  What is the longest bridge ever made?