Types of Bridges
This bridge relies on cable or rope to carry its load
What is suspension bridge
a pressing force that squeezes a material together
What is compression
This step of the EDP involves making a schematic for your design
What is Plan?
A team of engineers has gathered to decide what the criteria and constraints for their project are. They are on this stage of the EDP.
What is Ask?
This type of bridge uses the strength of the triangle to carry its load
What is a truss bridge?
The twisting stress placed on a bridge
What is torsion
This stage of the EDP involves researching the problem
What is Imagine?
This is what the RESTRICTIONS of a problem are called.
What is a constraint?
This is the most simple type of bridge
What is a beam bridge?
This stage of the Engineering Design Process involves building a prototype.
What is the Create stage?
A team of engineers determining whether their bridge can hold its required load (weight) is on this step of the EDP
What is Test?
a curved structure that converts the downward force of its own weight, and of any weight pressing down on top of it, into an outward force along its sides and base
What is an arch bridge
stress caused when force is applied to a material from two or more directions/planes
What is shear?
This stage of the engineering design process involves finding the criteria and constraints of a problem
What is the Ask stage?
These are how you measure whether or not your design has succeeded. They are the goal.
What are criteria?
a simple type of bridge, composed of horizontal beams supported by vertical posts
What is beam bridge
the push or pull on an object that might cause it to move or change positions
What is force?
Examining what biases might have affected your results is part of this stage of the EDP
What is the Reflect stage?
The Engineering Design Process is very similar to this other common process found in science.
What is the Scientific Method?
Bridges rely on a balance between these two types of stress
What are compression and tension?
This stage of the EDP invites people from outside your team to give feedback on your work
What is the Communicate stage?
A team of engineers has finished designing and sharing a product and are about to move on to the next project. They will move onto this sttage of the EDP next.
What is Reflect?