Northern Arizona Unversity Steel Bridge

Project Information

The final design the team choose is shown below. Please refer to the "Preliminary Designs" tab to see how the beam bridge was choosen and please refer to the "Documents" tab to see a full set of construction drawings for the design

Project Hours

2015-2016 Schedule/Gantt Chart

AISC Student Steel Bridge Competition

Below is a link to te competition rules that the steel bridge team had to abide by.

2016 Competition Rules

Competition Results

To begin the competition, the team has to build the bridge within a maximum 45 minute time limit and in 30 minutes with no penalty. The team was able to build the bridge in 25 minutes and 16 seconds this year. Only one dimensional violation was given to te bridge for being 1/4 inch to wide.

Next, the bridge was moved to the loading zone where it was preped with three deflection gauges, one at the center and te other two on the edges. 50 pounds of lateral load was applied at the center of the bridge and only 1/4 inch of deflection was measured. After te lateral load test, the vertical load test was done. The bridge was loaded with 2600 pounds of vertical load and was able to successfully pass the vertical load with 2.1 inches of vertical deflection.

Overall the team finished 3rd in display and 6th overall amongst 17 schools