COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, AMBAJOGAI

ISTE STUDENT CHAPTER Presents

National Level Technical Symposium
(27th FEB – 29th FEB 2012)
Event Rules

NIRMANA
Bridge Construction
Problem Statement:
Design a Bridge using Popsicle sticks (ice cream sticks) satisfying the stated constraints.
Conditions:
1. You can only use Popsicle sticks, adhesive, string. Organizers would provide
dimensions for wooden platform and trolley at the time of competition.
2. Synthetic white adhesive can only be used to build the structure.
3. Overlapping of sticks while pasting on each other should not be more than 50 %
4. Holes can be used as mounting units for bridge.
5. Team size: THREE.
Dimensions:
1. Width of the deck: Min 10 cm, Max 12 cm.
2. Stick: Maximum length 113 mm, width 10 mm and thickness 1.5 mm (It can be cut
to any shape or size).
3. Bridge should be fixed in to the base provided by arghya team.
4. Top view of base of the bridge is as shown in figure below
5. Diameter of string: Max 1 mm.
6. Holes are 5 cm * 5 cm and depth of hole is 5 cm.
7. Height of deck from surface of base should be 30 cm excluding depth of holes
 COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, AMBAJOGAI
ISTE STUDENT CHAPTER Presents
National Level Technical Symposium
(27th FEB – 29th FEB 2012)
Event Rules

Testing the bridge:

Trolley carrying weights is moved along the deck of the bridge. Participants are given three chances to
choose the weights from 2 kg to 10kg.
ii. CAD Design
1. Contest will consist of Two Rounds: 2D & 3D respectively.
2. Dimensioning is compulsory.
iii. Project Competition
1. Send your project abstract to arghya.coeamb@gmail.com
2. Participants can enroll more than one project in any branch.
3. Team Size: max. FOUR.
4. The abstract should be sent in IEEE format & also contain following requirements:
• Title of the Project, Names and Contact No. of the participants and their Institute’s name.
• Idea of the project.
• Objective and Working of project.
• Diagrams, Circuits, Algorithms, Block diagrams, Graphs, Flowcharts etc.