Civil Engineering:

Civil engineering is a branch of engineering responsible for the design, construction, and maintenance of infrastructure. Structures that civil engineers may work with include roads, bridges, dams, railways, and more. Civil Engineers must take into account the circumstances of the environment as they construct structures. Branches of civil engineering that are responsible for different circumstances include: construction and management, geotechnical, structural, transport, water, environmental, coastal and earthquake.

Building Science:

Building science utilizes knowledge from engineering, architecture, chemistry, physics, biology, and life sciences to understanding the behavior of buildings as a system. Through building science, a building can be optimized to withstand natural conditions and prevent any building failures.

Project Description:

This week, our team was tasked with constructing several bridges. We were given specifications for the first virtual bridge, but the second virtual bridge was turned into a 3D scaled model of our final bridge. The final bridge was built to withstand several bricks while placed on a shake table.

BRIDGE KIT

BRIDGE DESIGNER

During the making of the Bridge Designers we made the bridge as an arc and looked at the graph on where the least amount of compression and tension was and lower the strength on it. While doing this strategy, we got the bridge to the budget of 277,561.91

The total amount of net force the Bridge had in total is 27548.

MODEL SMART 3D

SCALE DRAWINGS

TINKERCAD