Introduction
During the years, there have been many bridge that have collapsed, causing many lives to be put in danger and lost. This project is to determine how much weight it would take for different scale model designs of truss bridges to collapse when weight, pressure, and gravity is applied to them. This experiment will test which truss bridge designs of, Pratt, Warren, and Howe. I chose this project because I want to see which truss bridge could hold the most weight capacity.
Bridges are structures used by people and vehicles to travel across lakes, river, highways, railroads, and canyons. Bridges are important to the world and society because they connect communities that are separated from water between them and allow others to see
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Pratt has diagonals under heavy tension, while verticals are under compression as they slope down toward the center (History of a Truss Bridge). Pratt truss verticals function as compression members, while diagonals function as tension members. Hip verticals are adjacent to inclined posts of the bridge. Pratt trusses are commonly used for railroad bridges. They a take longer time to build because of the more complex design where downward beams attach to the vertical beams (Difference Among Warren Truss, Howe Truss, and Pratt Truss, …show more content…
Howe truss have metal vertical tension rods and timber diagonal compression members. Combination truss is a joint of metal and wood materials for bridge components that has a significant transitional feature in the development of metal truss bridges (History of a Truss Bridge). Howe truss bridges take a longer time to build because of the more complex design where the vertical and diagonal members slope up towards the center (Difference Among Warren Truss, Howe Truss, and Pratt Truss, 2014).
Bridges are important to the world and society because they connect communities that are separated from water between them and be able to let others see people that are not as far as flying distance, but cannot be a short car ride. Bridges are often used to gaze at beautiful sunsets and areas that can be seen from standing on the
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Bering Land Bridge- during it’s time of existence the bridge was a major factor in migration from Asia to North America; made travel easier because it was on land instead of having to travel by boat
A connecting rod subjected to an axial load F may buckle with x-axis as neutral axis in the plane of motion of the connecting rod, {or} y-axis is a neutral axis. The connecting rod is considered like both ends hinged for buckling about x axis and both ends fixed for buckling about y-axis. A connecting rod should be equally strong in buckling about either axis [8].
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The Causeways and bridges were important to the function of Tenochtitlan. The causeways and bridges were most use to travel in and out of the city. (“Aztec Empire Tenochtitlan”). There were 4 causeways that went out of Tenochtitlan. The first was to the north and went to a city called Tepeyac. The second was to the South and it went to a city called Iztapalapan. The third was to the west and it went to a city called Tlacopan (Te papa Museum);(“Basic Aztec Facts: Aztec”). “The fourth causeway was to the east and it went to a city called “Chapultepec” on this causeway there was an aqueduct in which brought most of the freshwater into the city”(“Basic Aztec Facts: Aztec”). Causeways were raised roads that people would make to travel over swampy or wet areas (“Aztec Empire Tenochtitlan”). The causeways were made in layers starting with boulders and getting smaller as they went up
The bridge in cases brought happiness and hope to the people of the town as natural disasters and human life interactions gave it a meaning for the people. The bridge did bring many downsides to it as executions and the leading of World War 1 eventually occurred due to the problems that were brought over from the existence of the bridge. The view from the book was that The Bridge on the Drina brought joy for the town but it eventually leaded to political problems that could not be avoided until the bridge was destroyed. For me only one question remains and that is whether our present day today would be any different if that bridge was not built. Could that bridge be the blame for the idea of World War
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Boomilevers are most commonly built as right triangles, in order for them to withstand the most force. Naturally, this creates a hypotenuse, and also helps to define the device. If the tension member is the hypotenuse, then the device is known as a “tension boomilever.” In contrast, if the compression member is the hypotenuse, then it is known as a “compression boomilever.” When the testing of the boomilever begins, a weight is placed on the side farthest away from the base, or the distal end.
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