In this week’s workshop, our design director, Nikola, went over the most important rules and restrictions that the teams need to consider when building their bridges so that they can maximize the points they get in the competition. The teams also had a chance to get together and start brainstorming ideas for their bridge designs. …
This week, Asim, on of the design directors taught everyone how to create, resize, and mirror objects in AutoCAD. This program is an important aspect of the competition since it allows everyone to visualize their bridge better and it also helps explain to the judges how they thought through the design. Hopefully, the workshop helped …
This week Troitsky held a statics review workshop! Our design director, Nikola, worked hard to create a set of questions that explained basic concepts easily that you will need to know in order to build your bridges, such as bending moment diagrams and how to calculate stress. Knowing as much as possible about these topics is …
Our first workshop of the year was a review of CIV100 topics to help everyone joining the club either better understand or review ideas that will help up build their bridge. In order to make the best possible bridge you can, one needs to understand where the forces will be acting and how to account …