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200

This is the answer to

2+2

What is 4?

200

One of the most basic beam types, this beam is supported by a single pin and single roller.

What is a Simply supported beam?

200

 In civil engineering, Abrams’ law describes the strength of this type of building material, composed of fine and coarse aggregate bonded together.

What is Concrete?

200

Also known for inventing the first reflecting telescope, this man has one of two claims to inventing derivatives.

Who is Issac Newton?

200

This recent bridge collapsed in Maryland due to a ship’s power failure.

What is the Baltimore’s Francis Scott Key Bridge ?

200

In physics, in the SI system of measurement the constant g to two decimal places.

What is 9.81 m/s^2 ?

400

This is the first derivative of

3x^2+7x-21

 

What is 6x+7?

400

One of the most basic beam types, this type of beam is supported via only a rigid structure at one end.

What is a Cantilever Beam?

400

Similar to Concrete, this material is instead made of water, cement, and lime aggregate.

What is Mortar?

400

This dignitary is credited for inventing dynamite and an award with a million dollar prize.

Who is Alfred Nobel?

400

Completed on May 29th 1935, but with still curing concrete, this massive structure provides power to many homes in the Las Vegas area.

What is the Hoover Dam?

400

The acronym of the organization ASCE stands for this.

What is American Society of Engineers?

600

This is the integral of

1/x

What is  

ln(x) + C

600

Typically drawn directly beneath a Shear Diagram, in its simplest form this is the integral of a Shear Diagram.

What is a Moment Diagram?

600

Commonly made of combined aggregate and bitumen this material is black or very dark grey when first applied.

What is Asphalt?

600

This man is famous for inventing a number that sounds like the name of a Thanksgiving dessert.

Who is Archimedes?

600

This building in Taiwan is known for having the world’s largest mass damper in any skyscraper.

What is Taipei 101?

600

The ancient Greeks plans to walk through walls hinged on this object.

What is a Door?

800

This is the definition of what mathematical relation “Let f(x) assign to each element of x exactly one element of y”

What is a function?

800

These three angles in degrees are the 3 interior angles of a 3-4-5 triangle.

What are 90°, 53.13°, & 36.87° angles?

800

This type of concrete is made to amplify the autonomous/autogenous repairing of its precursor.

What is Self Healing Concrete?

800

The inventors of the first “Heavier than air device” that allowed humans to soar through the sky and literally reach new heights.

Who are The Wright brothers?

800

A 200 million $ skyscraper in London, this building is known for melting cars on the city streets.

What is the Walkie Talkie Building?
(or 20 Fenchurch Street)

800

Better known as a maker of smartphones, this Korean conglomerate was also the main contractor on Dubai’s Burj Khalifa.

What is Samsung?

1000

These numbers make up the first 10 digits of

pi


What is 3.141592653

1000

This type of common co-planar truss is named after the alphabetical shape it has.

What is a K-Truss?

1000

Also known as Reactive Powder Concrete, this type of concrete has a compressive strength around six times higher than normal concrete.

What is UHPC (Ultra High Performance Concrete)?

1000

This British bricklayer invented “Portland Cement”.

Who is Joseph Aspdin?

1000

Built over Puget Sound, this half mile long bridge collapsed due to wind causing a torsional vibration mode.

What is the Tacoma Narrows Bridge?

1000

PNW’s Gyte building has many rooms including the one we are in right now, this is the number of that room.

What is Gyte 26?