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http://bridgecontest.usma.edu/download.htm

Try it, it's fun. Design and build your own bridge, then watch it collapse as the truck falls in the water when you load-test it.
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my emech prof will love this
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neat...

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not a contest, but I still love it:
http://www.chroniclogic.com/Pfx.html
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i built a small bridge out of toothpicks and glue that held a small asian girl (~100 lbs)

i won the contest, and got an A. w0rd.

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PostIcon Posted on: Oct. 11 2001,02:28 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
We had a bridge building contest back in my 7th grade technology class.

"Technology" class... really doesn't get more generic than that.

Anyway, they were made out of balsa wood sticks, and we could only use a certain amount of materials. I got 2nd place overall. I was in 1st place the whole first day of the testing, then there was one kid who didn't get to go, and he beat me by like .5 pounds, the bastard.

Oh, vey. I think it was like 45 pounds or something.

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I also had a Technology class in 9th grade. Our bridge-building ptoject was very poorly organized. At the start, we were provided with good hardwoods for building materials. As time progressed, the supply for the class was replenished with Pine.

I was accused of cheating by some of my classmates because I drilled and pinned the joints with toothpicks instead of just using glue. But since the guidelines were very vague, there wasn't much they could do. For instance, when I asked what the road bed had to be made from, the instructor said, "I don't care." A piece of 3/4" steel would have made a nice roadbed. I should also mention that the weight of the bridge was never a criterion for the project.

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PostIcon Posted on: Oct. 11 2001,20:41 Skip to the previous post in this topic. Skip to the next post in this topic. Ignore posts   QUOTE
in year six i got a peice of A3 paper to withstand something redidculous like 35kg+ it would have taken more but we ran out of weights. who needs crappy special design when you just use the papers natural tension.

i.e just hang it from each end of 2 tables sticking it down really tightly

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quote:
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not a contest, but I still love it:
http://www.chroniclogic.com/Pfx.html

cool, I just beat the game... but I still love sending the train to its watery grave beneath the formerly-intact bridge
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Did a balsa bridge thing in my class in 8th grade, also under the guise of "Industrial Technology". We might as well have been working with toothpicks, the balsa was 1/4th of an inch thick. Previous years we had used Pine or something else, but apparently we weren't this year. Well, I won in my class, 50 pounds with that shitty shitty balsa, I was proud, the closest was 30 pounds.

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