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Towering skyscrapers providing offices for businesses, bridges that let people drive miles over water, and houses providing people shelter every day. All these structures affect people every day; and like all great ideas, it had to be planned. Without a plan for these ideas, how else would it be known how to build these great structures. And with the population growing we need more people to design new homes, businesses and other structures. Architecture is a major career that requires essential

Bridge Types The most common bridges found on South Dakota State Highways are either concrete slab or girder type structures. You make also come across steel truss bridges, wood glulam arch bridges, concrete box girder bridges. In this particular case, the most feasible option would be the steel girder bridge. At US Hwy 212 and SD Hwy 79 junction (south) the existing structure is a 3-span, steel girder bridge

be single diagonal or double diagonal as shown in Figure below. If there is no architectural limitation, diagonal bracings are considered to be the most efficient in resisting the lateral forces due to wind as these form a fully triangular vertical truss. The beams and columns are designed to take the gravity loads only. K-bracing The full diagonal bracing is not used in areas where a passage is required. In such cases, k-bracings are preferred over diagonal bracing because there is a

Covered and Creative This semester, the eighth graders built bridges. My group included Meghan, Anglina, and myself. I feel that we all did the same amount of work. I feel Anglina really acted like the leader of our group though. Our teamwork was great because we didn't fight and enjoyed eachothers company. The type of bridge we built was a covered bridge. We decided on this because we knew that we would be the only group to try this type of bridge. My inspiration came from the Ackley covered

During the Physics bridge project, teams were instructed to hypothesize and construct a Truss Bridge from Popsicle sticks to learn valuable life and Physics lessons. One team, in particular, Physics Abridged, may not have won but the team members have definitely learned more lessons any other team. This team began its trek to greatness by conducting several hours of academic research. In fact, the group had at least fifteen sources. In the first research phase, the team amassed ten sources; however

truly humbling experience. I consider myself to be a decent to middling writer, yet truss outlined dozens of mistakes that I make on a day to day basis. Nearly the first half of the book is devoted to an examination of the comma (a punctuation mark which I clearly failed to use properly). I’ve always been a bit unsure as to how (or if) an apostrophe is used differently between plural and singular possessives. Truss gives a particularly succinct description of how to use the apostrophe. If the word

work in groups and build a truss bridge. “Students will evaluate their own results or solutions to problems, as well as those of other children, by considering how well a product or design met the challenge to solve a problem. When possible, students should use measurements and include constraints and other criteria in their evaluations. They should modify designs based on the results of evaluations.” – NSTA E.1.4.a. Anticipatory Set: Teacher will present to students a truss bridge model built by her

Traits of trusses A truss includes straight individuals related at joints, for the most part termed board focuses. Trusses are made out of triangles in light of the key soundness of that shape and format. A triangle is the most direct geometric acknowledge that won't change shape when the lengths of the sides are settled. In examination, both the centers and the lengths of a four-sided figure should be settled for it to hold its shape. (Roylance, 2000, June 8) Truss Structures: There are

depended upon which type of bridge they created, and the equipment they used to make the bridge work. The students had studied four types of bridges: Arch, Beam, Cable Stay, Suspension, and Truss. If a student chose a Truss bridge, this bridge required less steel. The Truss would be cheaper than a Suspension bridge. Since the bridge was animated, there was a cost for animation, as well. To test the bridge’s functionality, an animated truck traveled across what

The initial design of the truss bridge shows trusses that are symmetrical throughout the bridge which allowed the weight of the truck moving across to be spread evenly throughout the bridge, allowing it to be stable when the weight is added resulting in minimal deflection of the overall bridge. Throughout the process, most supporting beams were mainly solid bars as they are good in tension and are more sturdy giving the bridge stronger structure. Other beams that didn’t take much load were changed