The document discusses different types of bridges such as beam, arch, truss, suspension, and stone arch bridges. It provides examples of notable bridges like the Golden Gate Bridge and Royal Gorge Bridge. It also shares links about truss tension and compression as well as choosing bridge designs. Finally, it assigns students to teams to design a paper bridge with a 10-inch span that can hold 100 pennies within budget and time using supplied materials.

1. How can I get to
the other side?

2. Structure Type
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Beam
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Arch

4. Structure Types
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Truss

6. http://www.coolmath-games.com/0-cargo-bridge/
Truss tension and compression
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DdOy5ftxRc

7. Structure Type
Video what is tension compression
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0V4HwUCrdvw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-V_8_qmJbE

8. Choosing the best design
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?
feature=player_embedded&v=-yLZYETYlmM

9. Bridge types
Truss bridge Stone arch bridge

10. Bridge types
Suspension bridge Suspension bridge
Golden gate bridge Royal Gorge - CO

11. Some other bridges

12. More bridges
Norway - DaVinci
England – Gateshead millennium-pivoting

13. More bridges
Venice - Calatrava
France-Millau viaduct

14. More bridges
Akashi-Kaiyo-Tokyo
Sydney Harbor

15. Assignment
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Make team of 5
Roles: Civil Engineer (strong design), Material
Engineer (strong material), Architect
(beautiful design), Project manager ( keep
within time permitted and job distributed
evenly), Accountant ( project within budget )

Design a bridge, 10” span and test to hold
100 pennies within allowable budget and
time. ( 2 paper cup, 1 poster paper, 1 bundle of
chip board strips, 6 skewers, 1 yard of yarn).
Items to share: tapes, glue gun, ruler, pencil

16. Paper bridge test

17. Paper Bridge Test