Trapezoid Truss Bridge

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Overall, the truss bridge will be a 20 meters length, 2 m width and 10 m height above the sea level bamboo bridge.
The truss bridge has two main parts, each part consists of a big trapezoid truss structure. The trapezoid contains 4 basic support sticks and 7-8 triangles, which is not possible to change the angle of a vertex without changing the length of a side from the geometric principle of the rigidity. Therefore, totally 4 pieces of the trapezoid truss structure will be constructed. What connect these parts together will be the beam lane and a pillar in the middle. The pillar takes the responsibility to stabilize since the length of the bridge is large that the material, which is bamboo, cannot load well of the middle part and spreads load

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