Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Retesting and the results

After the first round of experiments, i discovered that the results were not very clear for the experiments themselves. The first set of bridges, I found out to be skewed. Therefore, I had to retest the bridges and modefy the testing rig to get clear results that were easy to understand. When testing the first bridges, I discovered that three dimensional bridges are not as easy to experiment on as compared to two dimensional bridges. Since there is a extra dimension added to the bridges, it leaves more room for error. Therefore, the testing rig had to have a set of walls added to it in order for the bridge design to be tested correctly. Adding a set of walls would then all for the loads to be distributed evenly on the compression and tension members and not necessarily on the horizontal members connecting one side of the bridge to the other face of the bridge. These Are the results.



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