The students designed and built a balsa wood bridge to withstand the highest weight load possible given design constraints. Their final bridge had a high strength-to-weight ratio of 1.33, supporting over 16 pounds before breaking. The students documented their design process, which evolved throughout construction based on what they learned. Inspired by the Pai Memorial Bridge in Thailand, their bridge had an arched shape supported by cross beams and triangles to evenly distribute weight.
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The students designed and built a balsa wood bridge to withstand the highest weight load possible given design constraints. Their final bridge had a high strength-to-weight ratio of 1.33, supporting over 16 pounds before breaking. The students documented their design process, which evolved throughout construction based on what they learned. Inspired by the Pai Memorial Bridge in Thailand, their bridge had an arched shape supported by cross beams and triangles to evenly distribute weight.
The students designed and built a balsa wood bridge to withstand the highest weight load possible given design constraints. Their final bridge had a high strength-to-weight ratio of 1.33, supporting over 16 pounds before breaking. The students documented their design process, which evolved throughout construction based on what they learned. Inspired by the Pai Memorial Bridge in Thailand, their bridge had an arched shape supported by cross beams and triangles to evenly distribute weight.
Washington Latin Public Charter School 5200 2nd St NW, Washington, DC 20011 Background: Design Process: The course domains we used were Data: communicating within a scientific framework Figure 5: Final Bridge because of the format of presenting our data Bridge Weight Held Strength to and the way we analyzed the break. Another Weight Weight domain we used was developing and using Ratio models because our bridge modeled a physical situation that demonstrates our 12.0 g 16 lbs 1.33 physics concepts. (Grade We wanted to build a bridge1 that has a Record!) strong upwards arch-shape but with only long Final Bridge Picture (Before Breaking) straight lines and have supporting crosses that distribute the weight to a strong triangular shape. An image of the Pai Memorial Bridge Conclusion: in Thailand2 gave us the inspiration of strong Figure 2: Base Outline Figure 3: Shape Taking Form Figure 4: Final Touches ● Our objective was met because our bridge beams on the sides and top. had a high strength to weight ratio of 1.33. ● Our bridge was well executed because our Research Objective: joints held up and it was able to evenly Our objective was to plan and build a bridge distribute the weight of the sand throughout that has a high strength to weight ratio. the whole bridge. ● We changed our design because we wanted Materials: to make the bridge lighter by not laminating Balsa wood, wood glue, ruler, exacto knife, the base or the top. We also wanted to stapler, wax paper, and sharpies. Our mostly completed base Our bridge after we began Finishing our bridge off and disperse the weight evenly by adding working on the top of the installing the triangles on the Design: with the new design bridge. side. supports to the base and and an X shape in the middle. Figure 1: Schematic Revisions: Design During our building process we References: found that after working with the Figure 6: Bridge during the break wood and physically seeing the 1. Balsa wood bridge 1 [Image]. (2016, July 29). layout of the bridge, changes had The Clicker Center to be made to our initial design Blog.https://theclickercenterblog.com/2016/07/3 either to make the bridge lighter or 0/bridge-builders/balsa-wood-bridge-1/ to help the bridge distribute weight more efficiently. This meant we 2. Iverson, K. (2017, March 17). Memorial Bridge ended up not laminating any of Pai [Photograph]. culture pieces, made the bridge slightly trip.https://theculturetrip.com/asia/thailand/article longer, only made cross X’s in the s/ Our original approved sections at the center, and made visit-these-famous-bridges-during-your-trip-to-th design showing the ailand/ arches, joints, the incline on the sides one Our bridge right before the bottom fell out and broke.