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A1 Assignment - WPBD - West Point Bridge Designer

Overview

Each individual on a team will develop a different bridge design in WPBD within the overall constraints. Each will create a blog post about their design.

Details

  • Work within the constraints for WPBD defined below to develop a "safe" bridge with the lowest possible cost spanning the canyon.
    • We recommend, but do NOT require that each team member develop a different type of bridge.
  • Create a Post within your team's blog with the following characteristics
    • Post name is "A1 -YOURLASTNAME" where you put your last name instead of YOURLASTNAME
    • The page contains
      1. A statement of your design goals - why your bridge is the shape it is
      2. an image of the design - a 2D image of the design from the "drawing board view"
        1. There are many ways to do this. An easy one is to do a "screen capture", save it as a file, and then use the image insertion tool in Blogger to put it into your blog.
      3. an image of the truck in the middle of the bridge
      4. an image of the "Load test Results" (table is OK)
        1. Comes from "Report" menu
      5. A statement of how your bridge changed during design
      6. Bridge Cost - with an estimate of how much you think that could be improved with further time and knowledge
      7. What you learned from designing this bridge.

Tools

Constraints

  • Enter the "Local Contest Code" DUPA when creating your bridge
  • Do not lower the bridge - the beginning and end are at elevation "0" - Deck Elevation is 24 meters
  • Do not put in an intermediate support - the bridge is "clear span"
  • No cable anchorages
  • Standard abutments
  • Medium strength concrete for bridge deck
  • Loading is Standard 225kN Truck (Two Lanes)

Deliverables

  • Web Post as part of your team's blog with the content defined above
  • URL of the post (not general blog) submitted to VistaBB assignment

Grading Criteria

Criteria
Points
 Comment
Grammar & Spelling
2
  
Overall Completeness
2
  
Design Goals
2
  
Design Image
2
  
Truck in Bridge Middle Image
1
  
Load Test Results Image
1
  
How Bridge changed during design
2
  
Bridge Cost and Improvement
1
  
What you learned from design the bridge
2
  
Extra Credit from Comp1   Will be used to make up any lost points - but the total cannot exceed 15.
Total
15
  

 

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