The beam bridge I designed in CIV102 is a good example of my detailed design process. Designing a bridge is very different from actually building one – our conceptual ideas didn’t always work perfectly in practice. I felt that this project shows my detailed design work, especially while designing for assembly. For example, because contact cement sticks in place immediately, the diaphragms of the bridge must be put in at the beginning, not at the end. Even though this is not the intuitive way to build the bridge, it makes sense if you’re truly designing for assembly.
In addition, I had to design the bridge to be extremely durable at its weakest points. These points were the glued joints. Because of this weakness, I had to think of how to get more glued area around each joint, while still only using one tube of glue. I did this by folding the edges over, and therefore making a larger surface area to spread the glue over.
Below are pictures of my finished bridge, and the bridge being tested. It ended up holding over a kilonewton of weight!
Heath street
bridge presentation:
My
presentation about the improvement of the Heath Street East Bridge is an
example of my best work when it comes to presenting the results of a project.
My proposed solutions were clear and easy to understand. My slides also clearly
show the research I put into my proposed designs, and that I used Codes and
Standards and reference designs. The tables and quoted text from OSIM and CTADG clearly show I understand how to apply codes and standards to my projects. These are fundamental tools that I’ve learned
to use as an engineer, and I plan to continue to use them in my future
projects.
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