This was one of my earlier bridges. I built it after talking with my uncle, who is a mechanical engineer. He suggested that I try using an I-beam. I don’t know how much this bridge weighed, but it did not hold very much weight.

I had problems making the two I-beams for this bridge. I had to cut my own strips of wood, and I was not very good at doing that yet. The wood I used was very thin, perhaps too thin. I believe I used 1/32″ x 1/4″ strips.

I could not cut the wood strips very straight, and that was the downfall of this bridge. The pieces to the I-beam were not glued together well at all.

I was trying out some unique things with this bridge. And if I had better building skills, it might have turned out much better.

Post Tags: 2003, bridge, photos, science olympiad

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