Structures and Civil Engineering
Over the course of this week, we dove into the the world of civil engineering and worked on two truss bridges and a structural design process research paper to gain a deeper understanding of how the structures that surround us are made. We collaboratively designed a 2D bridge in the 2016 Bridge Designer software and a 3D bridge in Model Smart 3D. After the completion of these designs, we put each bridge into a virtual simulation to test their performance, and both of our bridges turned out to be successful.
What We Learned:
what joints and members are
how to design and calculate the forces of compression and tension on joints of truss bridges
the costs behind bridge making
the design process of different types of structures that civil engineers encounter
the basics behind what a civil engineer is and does
