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Truss Bridge Design and Experimentation by David Downing is a document available to read on EtoBox.

The document outlines a STEM unit plan consisting of 4 tasks completed over 12 weeks: 1) building a basic truss bridge, 2) conducting a structural member strength experiment, 3) designing a truss bridge with computer software, and 4) constructing a custom manila card bridge. It then provides documentation for an experiment to test the strength of different bridge column shapes under compression, tension, and bending forces using manila card. The results show that round and triangular column shapes performed

Author

David Downing

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EN