Name: Catie Oerther

Date Completed: 3/3/2018__

Design Brief
Client Company: West Point Bridge Company

Designer: Catie Oerther

Your team will design and create a bridge using West

Point Bridge Designer software. West Point Bridge
Designer is a simplified and scaled down computer-aided
design tool developed by Colonel Stephen Rassler,
Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering, U.S.
Military Academy, West Point, New York. The software
will allow you to apply engineering design, material
science, and statics to the design of a truss bridge
Problem Statement: carrying a two-lane highway that spans a riverbed.
Using West Point Bridge Designer software and the
engineering design process, create the lowest cost
Design Statement: possible bridge that meets all design constraints.

 Minimization of Cost
 The bridge may cross the valley at any elevation
 The highest point on the bridge may not exceed
an elevation 32.5 meters above the high-water
level (8.5 meters above the top of the riverbanks).
 May consist of either standard abutments (simple
supports) or arch abutments (arch supports). If
necessary, the bridge may also use one
intermediate pier, located near the center of the
valley. If necessary, the bridge may also use cable
anchorages, located 8 meters behind one or both
abutments.
 Each main truss can have no more than 50 joints
and no more than 120 members
Constraints:  The bridge deck will be 10 meters wide, such that
it can accommodate two lanes of traffic.

Project Lead The Way, Inc.

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 Name: Catie Oerther

Date Completed: 3/3/2018__

Project Lead The Way, Inc.

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