Place a tub or spreadout newspapers under the bridge to catch falling debris and make cleanup easier. Once you have built your bridge, we will weigh it, then we will use destructive testing to determine your success. Spaghetti data and graph sheet northern arizona university. Even though you can easily rip one or a few pages to shreds, the entire phone book has strength in numbers and holds together. Design report, will facilitate the beginning of the structural design process figure 1. This annual report describes dots work in maintaining 794 city bridges and tunnels. Half of the contents of a spaghetti box per group of 23 studentselmers glue dispenser 1 per group day 1. The aim is usually to construct a bridge with a specific quantity of materials over. These materials were used to reduce the weight, since the mass of the macaroni and linguine is less than the maltagliati spaghetti. This activity provides a great environment for discussing independent, dependent and control of variables.
American falls bridge draft design report new york state parks. The executive summary and conclusions of the june 2019 report has been. Many other factors also go into bridge design to keep them safe and standingeven under heavy weight. During the prelab discussion, i show students the lab setup and ask them what things that they think they could measure about the bridge or change about the setup to be different than the current setup. Design of reinforced concrete bridges department of civil. On may 3rd a prototype testing day will take place, so that all teams can see weakness and strengths of their designs. Though a marshmallow might not seem like a significant mass to support, students will find the challenge when they are constrained to using spaghetti sticks and tape. The report highlighted some of the important features, rationalized the design method and. How to build a spaghetti bridge with pictures wikihow. Chiusano 14 september 2016 spaghetti bridge lab conclusion the objective of the spaghetti bridge lab was to determine whether whole wheat or plain spaghetti makes the better bridge. Students will test factors affecting the strength and stability of a structure use the design process to identify. Spaghetti bridge sample spaghetti bridge physics 30s.
Place a bridge so it spans across the gap between two tables. This formed cylindrical beams which were quite thick, and difficult to snap in half. Bridge conceptual design guidelines transportation. Students should also graph their data and write an equation for the graph. This project is an introduction to measuring and comparing the strength of materials. State of the structures and bridges report fiscal year 2014 vdot. The pasta used may include lasagne sheets, macaroni, spaghetti strands etc. All data on this page are from automated sensors, are preliminary, and subject to verification. Vdots traffic ancillary structures inventory and inspection manual. A spaghetti bridge is a bridge architectural model made of uncooked spaghetti or other hard, dry, straight noodles.
Final column materials used were linguine, emirates macaroni and maltagliati spaghetti glued at the ends. On the other hand, the second part of this report presents a detailed structural design of a prestressed concrete bridge with a span of 25 meters based on three different. The goal was to build a tower out of 100 spaghetti noodles and 5 hot glue sticks that was 1 noodle high and half a. The linear equation is useful for interpreting and predicting the safety of the bridge for a given person. A technical engineering report is a response to an engineering design challenge that requires the. Read this literature creative writing and over 89,000 other research documents. A prototype spaghetti bridge must be constructed taking into consideration all the design constraints. Spaghetti towers when anything is being built a building, a bridge, a road, or a pier the architects and engineers have to design it carefully so that it is safe and ful. We all know that spaghetti strands can break easily, but in this video i will try to show that with a good truss design and some glue of course, a relatively long bridge can be made with this. To determine the relationship between the number of spaghetti strands in a bridge and the strength of the bridge based on how many marbleshex nuts it holds until the. Truss bridge, bridge with its loadbearing structures composed of a series of wooden or metal triangles, known as trusses.
Does spaghetti get extra strength if you bundle it together, or does strength simply. Final value analysis va study report full report for albion river and salmon creek bridges october 20 pdf. Students should be given ample time to design a bridge. Rainfall and reservoir summary santa barbara county. This lesson sets out to test students ability to construct a bridge that can support a predetermined weight. Their experiments help them to further understand the effects that compression and tension forces have with respect to the strength of structures. This report describes the project to construct a bridge from spaghetti, the experiments undertaken, design of the bridge and the results of the tests. Based on the experiment we conducted in class, it is determined that plain pasta makes the better and stronger bridge. Includes activities and links to stem activities and the nc science olympiad requirements for the 201220 year. Spaghetti bridge lab conclusion elaine chen honors. Project development of the plans preparation manual volume 1 revised.
To complete this lesson, students build the tallest freestanding structure they can that will support a marshmallow for at least 15 seconds. Tenth grade lesson spaghetti bridge lab betterlesson. Cablestayed bridges differ from their suspension predecessors in that they dont require anchorages, nor do they need two towers. All four members had between 40 and 50 pieces of spaghetti each, held together by white glue, which was painted on the pieces until they all stuck together. The above structures and bridges are addressed in this report, while. Downtown bridge and approaches there were a total of 367 respondents who specified an alternate on the downtown bridge. Sample technical report 89 spaghetti bridge, main span tape supports spaghetti anchors table table figure 1.
The only difference between this lab report and biology lab reports was the verbal model, math. We did not have to enter the actual process of building a bridge to discover how strength of the beams effects the quality of the bridge. Use the engineering design process to build a structure to handle the greatest load. Student pasta bridges hold hundreds of pounds photo gallery. Spaghetti bridge lab students find a relationship between the number of spaghetti strands making a bridge and the largest number of masses that can be supported. Spaghetti bridge report cameron criddle your report should include sections on. Then apply weights on the chain, starting with 5 pounds and working up to 50 pounds, or until the bridge breaks.
Vertical and horizontal bridge clearance report pdf. Spaghetti bridge design project you and a partner will be building a bridge that you designed out of spaghetti. The plain spaghetti strands held more weight with less strands. Investigation into bridge design and the strengths. Therefore, this report will further break down the responses by the comments related to the downtown bridge and approaches and the comments related to the east end bridge and approaches. Bridge inspection and structure inventory reports no login required. Spaghetti bridge lab block 1, group 1, 826 ashley, cassie, jeremiah. A lab report or written analysis will help them put their thoughts into.
Each water year wy runs from sept 1 through aug 31 and is designated by the calendar year in which it ends. Instead, the cables run from the roadway up to a single tower that alone bears the weight. Tape outer wrapping tape wrapping for strands individual noodles 3 figure 2. In reality, we want our bridges to be very strong, but easy and inexpensive to build. But a science activity like this one lets kids better understand how the properties of a building material will determine how it works in certain situations. The margins and fonts on these pages reflect the printers.
Well follow up with a report identifying your strengths and recommending how you might improve. To download the spaghetti tower instructions as a pdf. Association regularly updates and maintains the aluminum design manual d3. There are a small number of bridges that do not carry traffic but are routinely inspected and have their data entered into the new york state bridge inventory and. Gain firsthand experience with compression and tension forces. Rainfall and reservoir summary daily rainfall amounts are recorded as of 8am for the previous 24 hours. Basics of bridge construction build a spaghetti bridge project photo journal created by april 2008 slideshare uses cookies to improve functionality and performance, and to provide you with relevant advertising.
Then i categorize them into bridge design factors things that affect how the bridge looks and. Dry spaghetti is very brittle and breaks easily, but by gluing the strands together to create different shapes, you can make a model bridge that can hold a surprising amount of weight. Fifth grade lesson spaghetti bridge challenge betterlesson. This report was prepared in accordance with the nysdot project development manual.
Interactive site for an afterschool elementary stem club. Exploring bridge beams with spaghetti science buddies blog. The tower of a cablestayed bridge is responsible for absorbing and dealing with compressional forces. An engineer would never build a real bridge from spaghetti. Ultrahigh performance fiber reinforced concrete elements pdf. Squad final spaghetti bridge analysis perla perez utep b.
The objective of this lesson is to explore structures and investigate what methods of building can make the tallest and strongest structure. Opportunities for the use of aluminum in vehicular bridge construction. This bridge is one of a number of late example metal truss bridges from the 1950s. Odot is responsible for more than 370 painted steel bridges with over 27 million square feet of surface area. Our first bridge only had four members, which meant that we could use a lot of spaghetti on each individual one. A recent report on the condition of this bridge indicated that minimal. Using spaghetti and marshmallows, students experiment with different structures to determine which ones are able to handle the greatest amount of load. Trusses are capable of supporting considerable external loads over a large span and use a relatively small amount of material, making them.
New york code of rules and regulation nycrr part 15. It is an opportunity to show what has been learnt from this project and how it. In this race against the clock students work as a team to build the highest tower possible out of dried spaghetti and marshmallows. Depending on the level of your students, some might graph their data and write an equation for the graph, and the spaghetti bridge lab is a nice situation to use because the slope and yintercept have accessible physical meanings. Investigation of march 15, 2018 pedestrian bridge collapse osha. Image titled build a spaghetti bridge step 8 how to build a spaghetti bridge. Bridges are constructed for both educational experiments and competitions. These guidelines apply to all alberta transportation projects involving bridge size.
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