Week 2

In last week's lab my group learned how to create the blog. We also learned how the competition was to be set up and what was expected of us.
In the upcoming we our team will compare the bridges we all submitted. We will see whose bridge was able to hold the load with the least amount of tension in each bar while always keeping the price in mind.
Major accomplishments for this week include understanding the concept of truss bridges. With the basic knowledge of truss bridges we were able able to use WPBD to construct a rough design and begin editing it to find out which designs work best.
Issues that need to be faced is making a design that can both be put together easily, but with strength and cost in mind.
The three questions I have are: is there any guidebooks that compare different types of truss designs on Drexel library's site? Is there a source of current truss bridges in use in America? Is there a source for all truss bridge failures?

Robert Weldon - Group 10