Week 7- Carr

Last week in lab we tested one of our bridge designs and it performed fine yet we are striving for something more.  We, as a group, would love to see our bridge shatter the previous weight test.  Because of this, we went back to the drawing board and designed a new type of truss.  We fell confident about how it will perform and can't wait to test it.  Some data would be extremely helpful in our design process.  The forces exerted on each member or plate would greatly aid us in determining how to better disperse forces.  If we were to take this in our own hands we would change the weight into newtons and break up the forces into different directions.  We would use sine and cosine  to find the partial forces in different directions and mathematically design a strong truss.