Cal Poly Steel Bridge

All four senior captains are finally all back in San Luis and have begun coming up with some design ideas for this years bridge.  Were starting off simple by analyzing different undertruss designs and then will move on to the decking.  The four of us are working hard and coming up with some good designs.

The new rules for 2011 came out about 2 weeks ago and they’ve gone and made a few big changes.  This years bridge has a 5 to 7 foot cantilever on one end, all members have to fit in a 6″ X 4″ X 3′ box (which is 2 inches smaller than last year), and no more fancy flanges because only two members can be connected by one bolt.

All this should make things a little more complicated this year.

For complete list of the rules, click here.