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    You might be familiar with a normal cantilever bridge. Without one, we'd all be stuck at certain river crossings with nowhere to move. But a cantilever bridge is employed in dental care! And since almost all of us aren't long-distance swimmers, dental bridges are necessary for us to bypass. A missing teeth can create a sink-or-swim situation, and a dental bridge is the answer to help you stay afloat just! The Missing Teeth Dilemma When a teeth is missing, it generates more than simply an cosmetic problem. Missing teeth put strain on the harder remaining teeth to work, which can raise the opportunity of tooth decay, gum disease and crooked teeth. The area of the jaw where in fact the teeth is lacking may recede, leading to further tooth damage and premature maturity. Dentists recommend replacing a absent…

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    is the Quebec bridge disaster. This disaster happened on August 29, 1907; as workers were working on the bridge, a rivet was found to be split in half even though it had just been put in not long before. The cantilever bridge eventually collapsed under its own weight and took the lives of seventy five workers out of eighty six total workers (Quebec Bridge Disaster). The magnitude of this collapse was so large, it was thought to be an earthquake by people in Quebec City, about ten kilometers…

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    fleet for many years to come. Nonetheless, because of the age of the aircraft and the stresses caused by new missions, the B-52 wing needs structural improvement. The objectives of this engineering design project is to redesign the wing spar to support the many loads the wing is required to hold while satisfying additional design requirements. In addition to coming up with the design, we had to run an analysis to see which design will produce the best outcomes for the plane, the missions it will…

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    The home was passed down from Edgar Kauffamnns Sr. to Edgar K. Jr. who donated the structure to the Western Pennsylvania Conservancy (WPC) in 1963 according to WPC Fallingwater . The compromises of Fallingwater were the cantilevers which based on the book Prebles´ Artforms by Patrick Frank are the overhanging portion of a beam or slab extended beyond a supporting column or wall. The reason it is a compromise is because over time since it is not reinforced eventually it will start bending…

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    Early Suspension Bridges

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    History From the earliest of times we created bridges. Hunters needed to cross rivers and a fallen tree may come in handy.Early suspension bridge consisted of intertwined forest tendrils In Roman times they built bridges over ravines like Trajan in AD 105 that crosses the Tagus in Spain the bridge was made of granite with two massive arches 110 feet wide and 210 feet tall relative to the water.Every wedge block weighed 8 tons. Slaves organized these blocks through a system of pulleys powered by…

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    beam bridge or known as a girder bridge, is a bridge structure that consists of horizontal beams spanning supported by pillar at each end of the deck. The weight of the beam including the structure itself, plus any load it carries are supported by the downward force into the pillars. The beam bridge works on the principles of compression and tension, where on top of the bridge bends, it undergoes compression and at the bottom it is subjected to a horizontal tension. Therefore, the bridge must be…

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    Bridges Types Assessment There are five main types of bridges, these include the truss bridge, the arch bridge, the suspension, the beam bridge and the cable-stayed bridge. Each of these categories has various strengths, weaknesses and defining features and these are listed and clarified in the following report. The Truss Bridge Truss bridges are a reliable, economical and easy-to-build variety of bridges as they use a combination of tension and compression to provide a high level of…

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    Truss Bridges

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    Intro; A bridge is a structure that is built over a river, road, or railway to allow people and vehicles to cross from one side to the other. (CambridgeDictionaryOnline.com) Bridges come in many different shapes sizes and designs. However there multiple different categories of bridges ranging from Arch bridge, Truss bridge, Cantilever bridge, Cable-Stayed bridge, Beam bridge and Suspension bridge, All ranging with different designs. All of the different bridge designs are made to withstand a…

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    the Bridge can Hold Shivan Giroti Ms. Page Honors Life Science P6 10/2/15 Statement of Purpose The purpose of this experiment is to see how someone can use less materials to make safe bridges that work well. The controls are the material of the bridge, the model of the bridge, the cargo, and the surface. The manipulated variable is the distance between the support structures. Hypothesis If the support structures are each 1/4 away from each other then the bridge will hold the most…

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    1……………………………………………………………………………………….7 Design 2……………………………………………………………………………………….8 Design 3……………………………………………………………………………………….9 Pin and Rigid joints…………………………………………………………………………10 Hand Calculation……………………………………………………………………………10 Stress- Strain Graph…………………………………………………………………….….11 Results……………………………………………………………………………………….16 Deflection of Truss………………………………………………………………………….18 Finite Element Analysis…………………………………………………………………….19 Bridge Testing……………………………………………………………………………….21…

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