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Steel Bridge History
Statics
100

This is the tie-breaker for all competition categories.

What is Aesthetics?

100

These are the dimensions of the member box.

What is: 3.5" x 4" x 36"?

100

This is the maximum number of builders.

What is 6?

100

These are the 3 years Berkeley won the National Competition.

What are 2008, 2012, 2013?

100

This force is the opposite of tension.

What is compression?

200

This is the cost per inch of deflection.

What is 2,750,000 ($/inch)?

200

This is the maximum height of the bridge off the ground.

What is 5 feet?
200

This is the width of the river.

What is 7 feet?

200

This is the name of the Berkeley bridge who's fabrication was cut short.

What was Bearnana?
200

In statics, this number is the sum of forces.

What is 0?

300

These are the 2 components of the overall performance of the bridge.

What are construction Economy and Structural Efficiency?

300

This is the minimum height off the ground the bridge must be.

What is 4 inches?

300

This is the time penalty per drop.

What is 15 seconds?

300

This school was where the first SSBC was held.

What is Michigan State University?

300

These are the main 3 types of supports used in 2d analysis.

What are pins, rollers, and fixed supports?
400

These are the 8 categories teams are rated on?

What are aesthetics, construction speed, lightness, stiffness, construction economy, structural efficiency, and cost estimation, overall performance, and video.

400

The is the maximum width of the bridge.

What is 5 feet?

400

This member of the build team consults with the judges after construction.

What is the Captain?

400

This was the name of first named Berkeley bridge.

What is Calatrava?

400

This property of a section is a component of how well a member resists bending.

What is the moment of inertia?

500

This is the equation used to calculate the weight compenent of strucutral cost.

What is: [Measured weight (pounds)]1.85 x 45 ($/pound1.85) ?

500

This is the range of allowable lengths of the bridge.

What is 23'-24'
500

This zone of the staging yard is new this year.

What is the builders yard?

500

This was the last time Berkeley did not qualify for Nationals (excluding cancelled competitions)

When was 2016?
500

This mode of failure is not a concern for tension, but is a concern for compression.

What is buckling?