West Point Bridge Design

An opportunity to gain some more points to keep my grade up, I saw Mr. Olsen's post about building a West Point Bridge in our program on our computers. After a few different tries of making and adjusting multiple types of bridges, I developed a pretty well supported and stable bridge.

I attempted to keep the price down as much as I could which turned out to be pretty close to $400,000.

I learned a couple of engineering principles from this as well as physics.

After testing and retesting, I realized that the tension of both the compression and tension have to be under 1. I also discovered that the best way to support a bridge is from about with small, triangular piers that alleviate the compression and tension as you go to higher piers.