West Point Bridge Designer -The Bridge Designer 2016 is a free educational software package designed to provide middle-school and high-school students with a realistic introduction to engineering through the design of a steel highway bridge. We had to take this application and create a bridge as inexpensive as we possibly can, with the truck still able to pass "safely".
Procedure Your team will design and create a bridge utilizing West Point Bridge Designer software. Developed by Colonel Stephen Ressler, Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York. The software will allow you to apply engineering design, material science, and statics to the design of a truss bridge carrying a two-lane highway that spans a riverbed.
Our Design
Major Takeaways This was a fun way to find bridge designs that would work well with little material. It was even better that we put it into competition form. This was my best design that I could accomplish, it was my cheapest and one of the strongest.